HARRISBURG (PA)
Patriot News
Oct. 2, 2019
By Jan Murphy
Sexual abuse survivors and advocates pushing for reforms to Pennsylvania’s statute of limitations on sexual abuse claims for over a decade are tired of waiting.
They want action. They made that clear in their testimony offered at a state Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the issue on Wednesday. Offering their personal stories of abuse in emotion-packed testimony, they implored senators to have the courage to make those reforms.
As the daylong hearing neared its end from at-times tearful survivors, committee Chairwoman Lisa Baker, R-Luzerne County, made no promises to them about what the committee will do.
“But I can promise you have made an impact,” Baker said, to one panel of survivors following their testimony about their encounters with sexually abused by a doctor, a friend and clergy.
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