Submitted on Sunday 15th October 2017
Rejected on Friday 9th February 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Make historical physical and emotional child abuse a criminal offence
Historical Physical child abuse can not be put forward as a crime. A perpertrator can only be convicted of assaults taken place in the last 6 month of an assault happening. This leaves victims traumatised and vulnerable and allows perpertrators to hide away from history of abusing their victims.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
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People can be prosecuted for historical child abuse. The six month time limit you refer to only applies to "summary only offences", such as common assault. It does not apply to "either way offences" or "indictable offences" such as more serious forms of physical assault and the child sex offences set out in the Sexual Offences Act 2003, or the child cruelty offence under section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.
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