Publishing giant Gannett is facing lawsuits filed by 11 former paperboys who have accused employees of Gannett-owned newspapers of sexually abusing them on the job in the 1970s and 1980s.
Nine of the former paperboys filed complaints between 2019 and 2021 against Gannett’s Democrat and Chronicle, under the Child Victims Act, a New York law that extended the statute of limitations for survivors of sexual assault, enabling them to file criminal charges against their abusers during a two-year lookback window.
