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@wbur.org and ProPublica found that as many as 47 states allow more time to charge rapes or similar assaults of adults than Massachusetts, where attempts to lengthen the statute of limitations have failed every session since 2011. (Published Sept. 2025)

propublica.orgDNA Finally Tied a Man to Her Rape. It Didn’t Matter.Seventeen years after Louise was raped, Boston police told her they had a DNA match for her alleged rapist. But under Massachusetts state law, the case would be almost impossible to prosecute.

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The only conclusion I can come to based on the men who are in power, and their seemingly unanimous refusal to make sexual assault a crime, is that many, if not most men in power, rape women and/or children. It’s up to them to prove me wrong.

As a woman who went through a rape, reporting the rape, struggling to be believed, a 3-year legal process to a conviction of the perpetrator, I know how important it is to move all dates for reporting rapes as well as filing lawsuits against organizations who were complicit. Trauma needs time.