Spencer Elden may very well be the most famous naked baby the world has ever seen. A photo of him as an infant — submerged in water and seemingly chasing a dollar bill dangling from a fish hook — became…
NIRVANA, KURT COBAIN’S ESTATE: BABY’S ALL GROWN UP, NOW HE’S SUING … Over ‘Nevermind’ Art
The baby from Nirvana’s famous “Nevermind” album art is all grown up … and now he’s suing the band for child sexual exploitation. A man named Spencer Elden claims he’s the naked baby famously pictured in a swimming pool on Nirvana’s groundbreaking…
With New York Abuse Claim Window Closed, Victims Face Hurdles in Bankruptcy Court
Thousands of New Yorkers who said they were sexually abused as children filed lawsuits ahead of a state deadline last week. For many, their efforts to seek redress and confront abusers will now run through bankruptcy court, where the institutions…
Buffalo man’s testimony 18 years ago paved way for nearly 11,000 Child Victims Act lawsuits
The volume of cases in New York was 10 times the number of lawsuits filed in other states that opened similar windows suspending the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse crimes from years ago. The state Office of…
Nearly 1,100 Long Island lawsuits filed under NY Child Victims Act
Nearly 1,100 civil suits alleging sexual abuse have been filed in Long Island courts under a law that allowed victims to sue for crimes committed decades earlier, according to state records. The two-year lookback window to file a claim under…
How the Child Victims Act revealed New York’s dark history of child sexual abuse
The Child Victims’ Act, which went into effect August 2019, opened up a year-long window for adult survivors of child sexual abuse to file claims against their perpetrators, regardless of when the crimes occurred. The law also changed the statute of…