Legal Question in Personal Injury in Florida

Re: Sexual abuse statute of limitations

Unless you have only recently (within the past four years) recovered your memory of the event(s) that you had repressed, the statute of limitations has expired for any type of civil claim. Any changes in legislation could only affect cases prospectively, since your attacker -- once the statute of limitations expired -- obtained a constitutional right not to be sued.

If you go down the repressed memory trail, generally, you will need some proof that the memory was indeed repressed.

Of course, even suing him may not make real economic sense because he may have nothing that you can force by judgment to give you. O.J. lives here in Florida for a reason.

If your molestation involved penetration, the crimminal statute of limitation for a child has not expired and it is possible for the authorities to pursue the matter.