PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
BY LAUREN HENSLEY TUESDAY, MARCH 1ST 2016
Tuesday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced the findings of a grand jury report. The report said 50 priests and church leaders committed sexual acts on hundreds of children over four decades.
For state Rep. Mark Rozzi of Berks County, it is a story he said he knows all too well. He lived his own childhood nightmare when he was sexually abused at the hands of a priest back in the 1983.
“I couldn’t even speak about it until I was 39, for God’s sake,” said Rozzi.
Under law at that time, Rozzi only had five years to come forward for a criminal case and two years for a civil.
Now, victims have 50 years for a criminal case and 30 years for a civil one. But for the hundreds of alleged victims interviewed by a grand jury, time has run out time. Kane said none of the alleged criminal acts can be prosecuted.
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