PENNSYLVANIA
York Daily Record
Brandie Kessler, bkessler@ydr.com
State Rep. Mark Rozzi stood inside the capitol rotunda Monday and pressured lawmakers, specifically State Rep. Ronald Marsico, to reform the state’s statute of limitations on child sexual abuse.
For years, proposed legislation to change the statute of limitations in Pennsylvania, has not made it out of the house judiciary committee, which Marsico, R-Dauphin, chairs. Rozzi said that needs to change, and the proposed legislation needs to be voted on.
“We will jam up the (judiciary) committee, we will stop the committee from functioning if we have to,” Rozzi, D-Berks, told a crowd of dozens, including many who came specifically for the reform rally. “We’re just asking, basically, Chairman Ron Marsico to do his job, and that’s to pass that bill out (of) committee to protect the victims, the children of this commonwealth.”
Among the people standing behind Rozzi was Kristen Pfautz Woolley, founder of Turning Point Women’s Counseling and Advocacy Center in York. She is a survivor of child sexual abuse.
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