UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP (PA)
Delco Tiimes

October 17, 2018

By Phil Heron

It appears the Pennsylvania Senate is poised to do what it does best.

Not much.

The Senate has one day – today – left to take up a bill that would eliminate the statute of limitations to bring criminal charges in cases of child sexual abuse, as well as expanding the window for victims to bring civil actions.

Actually, it appears as if those measures could pass, just as they did in the House.

That’s not the problem. The issue that has tied up the bill in the Senate is an amendment added that would open a two-year window for past victims in abuse cases – sometimes from decades ago – to bring actions against their abusers, including the Catholic church.

The amendment was added to the legislation by Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, himself a victims of…