PENNSYLVANIA
PennLive
By Ivey DeJesus | idejesus@pennlive.com
on May 18, 2016
Phil Saviano earned vindication in 2001 when a tough investigating team at the Boston Globe began to look into his claims that priests in that diocese had been molesting children for decades.
Saviano’s story, which was depicted in the Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight,” has been widely recognized and on Wednesday, the 63-year-old activist recounted that story as part of a panel discussion at the state Capitol on the need to reform the state’s sex crime laws.
“This effort to improve statute of limitations across the country is one of most significant things to come out of this Globe investigation,” said Saviano, who is also a member of the support and advocacy group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
Saviano was joined on the panel discussion by its organizer, Rep. Mark Rozzi, (D-Berks), George Foster, the Altoona businessman who led investigators into uncovering decades worth of clergy abuse in that city’s diocese, Marci Hamilton, a constitutional lawyer, Patricia Dailey Lewis, the executive director of the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children as well as two survivors of sexual abuse.
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