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Pennsylvania House nears vote on child-abuse lawsuit window
Former Pennsylvania priest sentenced to 37 months on child porn charges
“He had no empathy for a single child in any of those images. “The reaction (William) McCandless felt was to look for more.”
If Pennsylvania senators don’t extend legal time limits for child sexual abuse cases, Gov. Tom Wolf said he’ll call a special session
House lawmakers green-lit a bill that would give survivors another two years to sue their alleged abusers, but it’s been languishing in the Senate.
84-year-old defrocked priest gets house arrest for lying to FBI in probe of abuse cases in Pennsylvania.
Under a plea agreement, he admitted he lied to the FBI when agents visited his home in 2019.
Pennsylvania priest gets prison term for sexually abusing altar boy
A western Pennsylvania Roman Catholic priest who sexually assaulted an altar boy for several years has been sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in state prison.
Former midstate priest sentenced to 5 years’ probation in abuse case
John G. Allen was removed from the priesthood in 2006 and was among the priests listed in a 2018 investigating grand jury report about sexual abuse. He had worked in Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and Snyder counties.
There’s another path for survivors of clergy sex abuse to get justice. It faces an uphill climb in the legislature.
Some survivors and their advocates believe the quickest way to remedy the problem is to abandon the time-consuming path of amending the state constitution, and instead approve the two-year window through regular legislation.
Survivors react to Pa’s botched sexual abuse amendment: ‘You’ve got to be kidding me’
The path for an amendment to become law in Pennsylvania is long. The language has to pass the legislature in two consecutive sessions, then go to voters for a referendum.
