Ohio's Attorney General calls for elimination of statute of limitations on rape
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and former Attorney General Richard Cordray today urged the Ohio General Assembly to eliminate the state's statute of limitations on rape.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and former Attorney General Richard Cordray today urged the Ohio General Assembly to eliminate the state's statute of limitations on rape.
More than half the states have already eliminated the statute of limitations for rape, but Ohio's current statute of limitations for rape is 20 years.
"We can't let a rapist run out the clock on justice," Yost said.
Nancy Rodgers, Jim Petro, Betty Montgomery, and Lee Fisher along with Cordray and Yost all sent a letter to Senate President Larry Obhof and Speaker of the House Larry Householder saying that they support to amend Ohio Revised Code section 2901.13 to include rape alongside murder as crimes that can be prosecuted without a statute of limitations.
"The profound invasion of the person makes rape like no other crime - a violation of the body, the mind, and the soul. We now know that the trauma associated with a rape has a lifetime impact on a survivor, making it a different sort of offense than theft or dealing drugs or extortion," the letter reads.
