I still want sex-vics law: andy

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo isn’t giving up on a bill that would help child sex abuse victims obtain justice as adults — even though the measure was left out of the state budget.

Cuomo on Saturday said he would continue to press for approval of the Child Victims Act and other policy matters that were not included in the budget through the end of the Legislature’s session in June, and if necessary make them campaign issues in the fall.

“If we don’t have agreement in the session, we will continue with those policies through the campaign in November,” Cuomo said at the Easter open house at the Executive Mansion.

Cuomo included the bill, which would expand the timeframe for child sex abuse victims to bring civil and criminal cases, in his budget proposal in January.

Although the bill was also supported by the Democrat-controlled Assembly, the measure — especially a controversial provision that would allow victims a so-called lookback window to revive already expired cases — met stiff resistance in the GOPcontrolled Senate and was left out of the $168 billion budget approved by the legislature early Saturday.

“Once again the leaders of New York State have failed victims of child sexual abuse,” Gary Greenberg, founder of Fighting for Children PAC and Protect NYKIDS, said in a statement.