HARRISBURG (PA)
PALive.com (WBRE/WYOU-TV)
June 13, 2018
By Matt Heckel and Jayne Ann Bugda
[VIDEO]
The findings of a grand jury investigating allegations of sexual abuse by priests at six Catholic Dioceses in Pennsylvania is set to be released to the public later this month. On Tuesday there was a push at the state capitol to give victims more legal rights. Eyewitness News Harrisburg Reporter Matt Heckel has the story.
A bill in the house would lift time limits for when victims of sex abuse can sue their alleged abusers. On Tuesday, Victims and advocates filled the capitol to urge lawmakers to pass the bill.
“You learn to live with it. It’s like a haunting,” said Teresa Lancaster.
Not a day has gone by since Teresa Lancaster graduated from “Archbishop Keough High School” in Baltimore in the 1970’s that she doesn’t think about the sexual abuse she and her classmates went through.
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