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How one woman sued her childhood sexual abuser years later — and won — thanks to a change in Utah law

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ginger Utley loved playing the piano as a child and it helped her get lost from the abuse by her Sunday School teacher. Now, out of practice, she says she only plays when she is alone but it brings her joy. Utley successfully sued the man who sexually abused her as a child, thanks to a 2016 change in the law that extended statute of limitations for adults to bring civil cases against their childhood abusers.