Survivor and retired Burlington detective urge changes to statute of limitations in House Judiciary hearing on HB 626

The House Judiciary Committee heard emotional testimony on HB 626 on January 28, when survivor Kira Kilburn recounted discovering years after the fact that a video of her and her sister filmed without consent had been posted to a pornographic website, and a retired Burlington detective described investigative barriers that kept prosecutors from bringing criminal charges.

Kilburn told the committee she was 19 when a college professor invited her and her underage sister to participate in a class video and later "uploaded it to the Internet." She said discovery of the footage "was life shattering," that she feared losing her career in homeless and domestic-violence services, and that she later was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. "Knowing that they would be knowing this would be incredibly meaningful to me," she said, urging lawmakers that changes could help future victims even if they cannot help…