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The Morning Call
Bill White
Of The Morning Call
Child sex abuse victims, advocates hope grand jury report will spur legislative action
It’s been several months since I’ve written about efforts to extend legislative justice to more victims of child sex abuse in Pennsylvania.
That’s mostly because those efforts are stalled. I’ll get back to that.
My last column and blog post, both from February, focused respectively on:
• The insistence of some supporters of statute of limitations legislation that it include a provision for older victims to have the opportunity for their day in court, an area of disagreement so far between the House and Senate.
• The horrifying grand jury report about child sex abuse at the private Solebury School in New Hope, a reminder that these victims and predators are not confined to the Catholic Church, which has received so much focus.
Since I know fewer readers see my blog posts, I’ll summarize by explaining that the Solebury grand jury report described how teachers routinely were grooming female and male students for sexual relationships, some of which it said continued for years and had a profound effect on the young people’s lives. The report said the private school’s leaders were unresponsive to rumors of these predatory relationships and even direct reports from the victims.
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