PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC

BY SARA SMALL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16TH 2016

HARRISBURG — House Representative Bryan Barbin, D-71st District, has introduced two new bills in Harrisburg that would change the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases.

The timeliness of these new bills is certainly resonating with legislators as an investigation continues into the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane also announced criminal charges against three Franciscan Friars this week, involved in the Brother Stephen Baker and Bishop McCort Catholic High School case.

Barbin is joined by several legislators including Mark Rozzi of Berks County, a sexual abuse victim himself, who’ve recently introduced bills about the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases.

“I believe the bills are the strongest to protect against the challenge that they’re unconstitutional,” Barbin said Wednesday.