Susan K. Smith
David M. Moore

Attorneys at Law

Mediation, Collaboration
Victims' Remedies
Injury Cases

Smith & Moore, LLC
www.SmithMooreLLC.com
www.smith-lawfirm.com

suesmith@smith-lawfirm.com

24 East Main Street
(Route 44)
Old Avon Village North
Avon, CT 06001
Direct dial:
Atty. Smith:  (860) 678-1860
Atty. Moore: (860) 674-0122
Fax: (860) 677-5229
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Hartford, CT 06106
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Martindale-Hubbell
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For Ethical Standards and Legal Ability

South Dakota

Text of the Act:

26-10-25. Time limit on civil action arising out of sexual abuse of child.

Any civil action based on intentional conduct brought by any person for recovery of damages for injury suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse shall be commenced within three years of the act alleged to have caused the injury or condition, or three years of the time the victim discovered or reasonably should have discovered that the injury or condition was caused by the act, whichever period expires later.

The statute applies to all acts of sexual abuse and is applicable to acts of abuse which occurred prior to passage of the statute (retroactively) as well as those which occurred after passage (prospectively). Stratmeyer v. Stratmeyer, 567 N.W.2d 220 (SD 1997) (overruling Koenig v. Lambert, 527 N.W.2d 903 (S.D. 1995).