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 creator is Sen. Susan Rubio (D-Baldwin Park), would permit accusers as much as 15 years after an incident occurred to press costs.
“This is the reason I fight so hard to educate and encourage people to see through the lens of a victim,” stated 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, via Senate Invoice 690, to broaden it to fifteen years.
For Rubio, 5 years is “not good enough.”
Her remarks come within the week after disturbing surveillance footage surfaced that exhibits 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 in opposition to him final 12 months.
The Los Angeles County district lawyer’s workplace referred to as the video “difficult to watch” in a press release following the discharge of the video. Nonetheless, authorities stated they will’t pursue costs.
“If the conduct depicted occurred in 2016, unfortunately we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted,” the assertion stated.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California stated it respects the objective of selling justice for survivors of home violence however opposed the 2019 invoice.
“We fear that the extension proposed by this bill will both threaten defendants’ rights and remove the incentive for law enforcement and prosecutors to more swiftly address reports of domestic partner violence in the first instance,” it wrote.
Rubio stated if her invoice passes, Ventura would be capable of press costs. The invoice at present is into account within the Meeting.
