If the Jeffery Epstein case has brought about any good, it’s been to highlight the irreparable damage of sexual assault and abuse — especially toward children.

The extent of Epstein’s sexual abuse is a tragedy on its own. But it also shows how money, power and the well-connected can often play a role in perpetuating horrific crimes that also affect millions of people in lesser high-profile situations.

More can be done to support sex abuse survivors — particularly children and adolescent victims — and to hold abusers to account.

House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, has the opportunity to do just that by bringing before the House a long-awaited legislative package to extend the statute of limitations for victims of sexual assault and child sex abuse — and remove some institutiona

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