Statutes of Limitations for Child Sex Abuse and the Destruction of Child Rape Kits

Marci Hamilton

University of Pennsylvania

MARCI A. HAMILTON is the founder, CEO, and Academic Director of CHILD USA, www.childusa.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit academic think tank at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to interdisciplinary, evidence-based research to prevent child abuse and neglect. She is also a Fox Family Pavilion Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania.  Prof. Hamilton is the leading expert on child sex abuse statutes of limitations and clergy sex abuse and the author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children (Cambridge University Press).  She has filed numerous pro bono amicus briefs for the protection of children at the United States Supreme Court and the state supreme courts.  Her textbook, Children and the Law, will be published Fall 2017 by Carolina Academic Press.  Hamilton is a bi-monthly columnist for www.justia/verdict.  Before joining the program on religion at Penn, Professor Hamilton was the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.Prof. Hamilton clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the United States Supreme Court and is the recipient of many honors and awards for her work on child protection.