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4 July 2018

Legislative support waning for bill giving adults more time to sue for childhood sex abuse

For more than two years, adults scarred by the memory of child sex abuse have sought personal and legal salvation in a pending state grand jury report about sexual misconduct and cover-ups in six Catholic dioceses across Pennsylvania. They believed that the report’s publication — now delayed by the state Supreme Court — would galvanize lawmakers to pass a bill letting them have their day in civil court, too.

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pennsylvania-priest-child-sex-abuse-grand-jury-lawsuits-20180627-story.html