Child Abuse

State legislative leaders say they’ll take a procedural vote on the proposal early next year. 2023 primary voters would then get to weigh in.

A 2018 Grand Jury recommended the state temporarily lift legal time limits for survivors

A final vote could take place as early as next week, but time is running out to get the proposal before voters for the May primary.

When the Pennsylvania Department of State failed to advertise the proposed constitutional amendment that had been passed by the legislature, it halted a march toward justice for thousands of victims abused in the commonwealth.

“Pick your poison: either way, the Catholic Church is going to oppose it. We’re not going away. We’re not going to wait two years.”

“[He] made it very clear a year and a half ago that he had it out for me and was very vocal about that."

“On some level, this is the Boy Scouts accepting responsibility for what happened.”

People abused as children will be able to file criminal suits against their abusers no matter how much time has passed.

The two men want to propose an alternative to the anger and bitterness the scandal has wrought.

The Metropolitan Opera suspended, and then fired, Levine after several men came forward with accusations that the conductor had sexually abused them.