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28 April 2017

Call it Denny Hastert's legacy: End the statute of limitations on sex abuse crimes

At his sentencing hearing a year ago, former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert apologized for sexually abusing boys he'd mentored decades before as a wrestling coach at Yorkville High School. "For 11 months, I have been struggling to come to terms with events that occurred almost four decades ago," he said at the emotional Chicago hearing in which a federal judge called him a "serial child molester."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-sexual-abuse-statute-limitations-hastert-edit-20170425-story.html