Billionaire music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs may very well be eligible to be prosecuted for allegedly abusing his girlfriend in Los Angeles in 2016 beneath a newly launched invoice into account within the California Legislature.
The invoice, whose writer is Sen. Susan Rubio (D-Baldwin Park), would enable accusers as much as 15 years after an incident occurred to press fees.
“That is the explanation I combat so laborious to coach and encourage folks to see by the lens of a sufferer,” mentioned Rubio, who says she is a survivor of home violence.
Rubio in 2019 pushed for a invoice to increase the statute of limitations from three to twenty years. Lawmakers finally agreed to increase the time to 5 years. Now Rubio is making one other try, by Senate Invoice 690, to increase it to fifteen years.
For Rubio, 5 years is “not adequate.”
Her remarks come within the week after disturbing surveillance footage surfaced that reveals Combs bodily abusing his former girlfriend in a Los Angeles resort in 2016. Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, a singer who dated Combs for 11 years, filed a lawsuit towards him final 12 months.
The Los Angeles County district legal professional’s workplace known as the video “troublesome to look at” in a press release following the discharge of the video. Nonetheless, authorities mentioned they will’t pursue fees.
“If the conduct depicted occurred in 2016, sadly we might be unable to cost because the conduct would have occurred past the timeline the place a criminal offense of assault could be prosecuted,” the assertion mentioned.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California mentioned it respects the aim of selling justice for survivors of home violence however opposed the 2019 invoice.
“We worry that the extension proposed by this invoice will each threaten defendants’ rights and take away the inducement for regulation enforcement and prosecutors to extra swiftly handle experiences of home associate violence within the first occasion,” it wrote.
Rubio mentioned if her invoice passes, Ventura would be capable of press fees. The invoice at present is into account within the Meeting.
