PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philly.com
August 19, 2018
By John Baer
There’s an ugly irony in last week’s release of a statewide grand jury report on decades of sex abuse of children, and its cover-up, by Catholic clergy.
Turns out the state with the fullest examination of the globally troubling problem is also the state offering some of the nation’s weakest recourse for those who’ve been abused.
And you can guess why: Pennsylvania’s legislature.
It has long lagged in helping victims ease at least some suffering endured at the hands of evil.
Just one more category in which we trail most states. And, in this case, not by a little.
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