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By Ivey DeJesus | idejesus@pennlive.com
Armed with posters bearing photos of their children – many of whom have taken their lives – advocates for child sex abuse victims on Monday rallied on the steps of the Capitol to call on lawmakers to push through a bill that would reform child sex crime laws.
Leading the rally, Marci Hamilton, a constitutional law expert and statute of limitations expert, said the effort to reform the law was about the victims.
“This is just about the civil rights of children,” Hamilton said, about an hour before the Senate Judiciary Committee was slated to hold a hearing on the legal aspects of House Bill 1947, which would amend the statute of limitations.
Advocates know that in order for the law to change the bill must survive the scrutiny of the judiciary committee.
John Salveson, president of the Foundation to Abolish Child Sex Abuse, said his attendance at the rally – and the hearing – was a culmination of a lifetime effort to bring justice on the priest who abused him as a child.
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