City Council Passes Bill on Sex-abuse Measures

Philadelphia Daily News
March 30, 2012

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City Council unanimously approved a resolution urging the state legislature to move forward on bills that would protect victims of childhood sexual abuse.

"No one really understands what these young men and women experience unless you've been there," State Rep. Louise Bishop (D., Phila.), who said she was a victim of abuse at age 12, told Council. "No one understands how to treat them. No one understands what it feels like and no one is able to help them until a law is put into place."

"We want to send a strong message on this," said Councilmen Bill Greenlee, who co-sponsored the bill with Councilman Dennis O'Brien. Councilman Jim Kenney added: "There should be no statute of limitations on the theft of people's childhood."