A New Jersey appeals court will decide whether a law easing the statute of limitations on civil actions for child sexual abuse applies to abuse of one minor child by another.

The appeals court will consider reinstating a suit by a man in his 60s, who claims his sister sexually assaulted him repeatedly when he was 9 and 10 years old. The plaintiff, identified in court documents as John Doe, brought the suit under the Child Victims Act, a 2019 law designed to allow suits by adult victims of childhood sexual abuse whose memories were repressed.

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