PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
By Karen Langley / Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG — In the wake of a grand jury report alleging extensive child sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Attorney General Kathleen Kane and other state leaders called Monday for legislators to change statutes of limitations for child sexual abuse.
After changes in 2002 and 2006 following abuse scandals, victims of child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania can now bring criminal cases until their 50th birthdays and civil lawsuits until their 30th birthdays.
Speaking in the Capitol, Ms. Kane called for an end of limitations for criminal and civil cases.
“We ask ourselves as a society, who are we?” she said. ”Do we protect our children? Do we make sure that child sexual abusers never stop looking over their shoulder? Or do we protect the rapists?”
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