Child abuse survivor pushes to extend statute of limitations

Child abuse survivor pushes to extend statute of limitations

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — It's been decades since Lisa Harter-Pettit left home, but her abusive upbringing still haunts her to this day. "My childhood was completely stolen from me," she said. Harter-Pettit was 10 years old when she moved into a her father and stepmother's home off Weaver Hill Road in West Greenwich in the 1970s. Harter-Pettit told 12 News the driving force of the abuse was her stepmother. "She hated us because we weren't her ch…