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Murderers face justice decades later. Why are child-rapists protected from older charges?

Federal legislation is needed to close the loopholes and harmonize the hodgepodge of laws against child sex abuse that currently exist in the United States.

Murderers face justice decades later. Why are child-rapists protected from older charges?

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From the archives: An artistic labor of love

Artist Mary Whyte is creating a record of those whose labors reflect a changing world. Correspondent Martha Teichner talked with Whyte about her watercolor portraits of men and women - a movie projectionist, a textile mill worker, a fisherman - that can become, Whyte says, "a person's resume of their life," in this "Sunday Morning" story…

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