HARRISBURG (PA)
Penn Live
August 8, 2018
By Ivey DeJesus
Two advocacy groups for victims of child sex abuse on Wednesday jointly filed an amicus brief urging the state’s highest court to reject the arguments of clergy seeking to have their names redacted from the upcoming report.
In their filing to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, CHILD USA and BishopAccountability.org noted that as a result of the state’s narrowly defined statute of limitations, victims have limited avenues for publicly exposing predators.
“Parents deserve to know who is endangering their children and how. Pennsylvanians only know about the child sex abuse in the Philadelphia and Johnstown/Altoona dioceses, at Penn State, and at the Solebury School, because prosecutors took the lead and issued grand jury reports detailing the dangers that children had suffered,” said Marci Hamilton, CEO and a director of CHILD USA.
Last week, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioning clergy.
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