In 2014, Illinois lifted it's statue of limitations on child sexual abuse. (click here)

The payments by Hastert is proof of long term injury to one of his victims. The fact this person was abused by Dennis Hastert and was receiving payments for his injuries to current day should move the statute to within 20 years. This is an ongoing problem for Mr. Hastert. It is not buried in the past and the injury has carried through to today.

I think the federal prosecutors have it wrong. This is an ongoing issue for Mr. Hastert that started decades ago. Statutes of limitations don't apply. The initial injury occurred decades ago and it has continued over decades of time.

April 8, 2016
By Monica Davey and Mitch Smith

Chicago — Federal prosecutors on Friday (click here) for the first time provided details of sexual abuse allegations against J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House, asserting that he molested at least four boys, as young as 14, when he worked as a high school wrestling coach decades ago.

Mr. Hastert, 74, is not charged with abuse because of statutes of limitation, prosecutors said, but he was accused last year of illegally structuring bank withdrawals to pay one of his victims in an effort to hide the abuse. He pleaded guilty in October to the banking violation, and suffered a stroke in November while awaiting sentencing, set for April 27.

In a court filing late Friday, making suggestions for a judge who will decide Mr. Hastert’s sentence, the prosecutors described specific, graphic incidents that they say occurred when Mr. Hastert was a popular, championship-winning coach in a small Illinois town in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. The “known acts,” the prosecutors said, consisted of “intentional touching of minors’ groin area and genitals or oral sex with a minor.”