PITTSBURGH (PA)
Action 4 News
August 24, 2018
By Bob Mayo
Philadelphia – In the wake of the findings by a Pennsylvania grand jury, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is calling for strengthening laws to better protect children from sexual abuse.
“The grand jury report was a chronicle of pure evil. Pure evil. There’s no other way to say it,” Casey, D-Pa., said at a news conference in Philadelphia on Friday.
Casey, a Catholic, feels the issue is larger than the six dioceses the grand jury examined.
“We should all be angry,” Casey said. “You don’t have to be a Catholic. You don’t even have to be an American. Just as a human being, we should be angry.”
Casey is proposing federal action to press for tougher and more uniform standards across Pennsylvania and all states. His bill would seek to require that suspected child abuse be reported directly to law enforcement or state authorities.
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