Kim Bergman urges Kansas lawmakers during a news conference Thursday at the Statehouse in Topeka to adopt a bill that would eliminate the deadline for filing civil lawsuits seeking damages for childhood sexual abuse. Bergman has sent repeated emails and messages over social media calling on Sen. Kellie Warren to schedule a hearing on Senate Bill 420, but hasn’t gotten a response. (Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector)
By Noah Taborda kansasreflector.com TOPEKA — Kim Bergman was 12 years old when her gymnastics coach, David Byrd, began abusing her. Bergman was not his…