HARRISBURG (PA)
The Morning Call
June 12, 2018
By Steve Esack
Good morning!
The summit is over between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, with Trump saying he would freeze “war games” with South Korea, writes the Associated Press.
Rally to fight child sex abuse
State Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, and other advocates seeking to end child sex abuse will hold a 3 p.m. news conference in the state Capitol.
The gathering comes as the attorney general’s office prepares to release the findings of a statewide grand jury investigation into child sex abuse and cover ups in six Catholic dioceses and supporters within local governments and communities.
Rozzi, who has spoken of his own childhood rape at the hands of a priest, will be joined by other victims who say they were abused by religious leaders in other denominations. Rozzi will be pushing for passage of a bill to lift time limits for when victims can sue their alleged abusers.
Rozzi, with the backing of a majority of Republican and Democratic lawmakers, pushed a similar bill through the House in 2016. It died in the Senate that year amid widespread opposition, especially from Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, R-Montgomery, who chairs the Senate Judiciary committee, which handles state legal issues.
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