PENNSYLVANIA
The Morning Call
September 8, 2018
By Michelle Merlin and Carol Thompson
Bills to strengthen Pennsylvania child sex abuse laws are introduced in the Legislature with almost religious regularity.
The Morning Call reviewed 28 filed since 2013 — 15 in the 2015-2016 session alone.
But none has gained traction, despite the outcry over child sex abuse scandals in the state’s Catholic diocese and the Penn State University football program during the Jerry Sandusky era, which broke in 2011.
Just two of those 28 bills came up for a vote; politicians in the state House and Senate have been unable or unwilling to act on the others.
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