HARRISBURG (PA)
WFMZ
October 15, 2018
By Jaccii Farris
Just after 10 a.m., a group of people standing in Pennsylvania’s state capitol building was given a cue: begin reading.
But the words were difficult to say, especially out loud.
Sentences like “One of the victims was as young as 13 years old,” began spilling from their lips.
Their words couldn’t be posted on Facebook or found in an adult bookstore. But they echoed down the hall outside Senate chambers.
“Like a bad dream that we have to be here doing this. They should’ve done the right thing by now,” said Catholic church sexual abuse survivor Julianne Bortz.
Bortz is among dozens of survivors who are reading the Pennsylvania grand jury’s clergy sex abuse report in the hopes of getting the senate’s attention just ahead of an important vote.
The grand jury made several recommendations, including eliminating the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse.
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