Gov. Corbett signs post-Sandusky child-abuse bills

CENTRE DAILY / AP: …Lawmakers acted to update nearly 20-year-old state laws on how cases of suspected child abuse are defined, investigated and punished.

One of the new laws expands the definition of who investigators can consider a potential perpetrator of child abuse.

Another addresses a longstanding complaint of child welfare advocates by lowering the threshold for the kind of injury or pain that is considered child abuse… (more)

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