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S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-555

Statute of limitations for action based on sexual abuse or incest

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Doe v. Crooks (2005)

Most recently applied in Doe v. City of Duncan (June 2016)

2001 Act No. 102, SECTION 3.

(A) An action to recover damages for injury to a person arising out of an act of sexual abuse or incest must be commenced within six years after the person becomes twenty-one years of age or within three years from the time of discovery by the person of the injury and the causal relationship between the injury and the sexual abuse or incest, whichever occurs later.

(B) Parental immunity is not a defense against claims based on sexual abuse or incest that occurred before, on, or after this section's effective date.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.