3/7/19 | Amanda Hoskins | WHP CBS 21 News A New Jersey statute of limitations reform bill is one step closer to becoming law. It would allow most child sexual abuse survivors a change to file civil suits, including a family from central PA. The bill is similar to what lawmakers failed to pass in Pennsylvania. Thursday, New Jersey’s Senate […]
3/6/19 | Prof. Marci A. Hamilton, Founder and CEO, CHILDUSA (215) 539-1906 From our friends at ChildUSA: “The 2019 HBO documentary on sex abuse by megastar, Michael Jackson, Leaving Neverland, is a valuable tool for educating parents, the public, and lawmakers on the ways in which child molesters operate. In the documentary, Wade Robson and James Safechuck describe their child […]
The PA Office of Victim Advocate invites all victims/survivors and advocates to stand in solidarity to implore our Senate to return and pass Senate Bill 261 as passed by the House with no changes. More info HERE
PBS News Hour | Dan Cooney & Courtney Norris | 10/19/18 The U.S. Department of Justice is launching an investigation into child sex abuse within Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic churches, the latest fallout of widespread allegations made public by a grand jury probe this summer, and felt in communities across the U.S. The PBS NewsHour confirmed that Justice Department prosecutors served […]
Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/19/18 |Maria Panaritis HARRISBURG — For three long days inside the Capitol here, as the hopes of clergy-abuse victims hung in the balance, there was anticipation and angst amid the magnificent murals, white marble pillars, gold-leaf-painted arches, and soaring dome inspired by none other than St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Victims, lobbyists, lawmakers, and reporters scurried through […]
John Salveson, 61, who now lives in Pennsylvania, says he was abused as a teen by a priest at a church in Oyster Bay. Photo Credit: Corey Perrine Newsday | 10/18/18 |Bart Jones John Salveson says he warned the Roman Catholic Church nearly 40 years ago about the priest who abused him at a parish on Long Island, but no […]
Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/18/18 |Liz Navratil and Angela Couloumbis HARRISBURG — A complicated game of calculus ensued Thursday after the Senate failed during its last voting session to reach any agreement on changes that would allow victims of child sexual abuse to file lawsuits for decades-old damage. Was there still a glimmer of hope, or was the “window” to temporarily […]
Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/18/18 | Angela Couloumbis & Jeremy Roebuck HARRISBURG — U.S. prosecutors have subpoenaed every Roman Catholic diocese in Pennsylvania for a trove of records, opening a potentially unprecedented inquiry into whether decades of clergy sex abuse and the ensuing cover-up constituted any federal crimes. Nearly all of the eight dioceses acknowledged Thursday that they had either received […]