PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE / AP: The first bills in the Pennsylvania Legislature’s wide-ranging response to the Jerry Sandusky and the Roman Catholic clergy scandals were sent on Wednesday to Gov. Tom Corbett, a year after a commission recommended sweeping changes to the state’s child abuse laws…
“Passing this legislation will ensure that every case of suspected child abuse is properly investigated, bringing abusers to justice and helping families and victims heal,” Washington told colleagues.
Washington’s bill, which also passed on Wednesday, would lower the threshold for the kind of injury to a child that could trigger child welfare workers to summon a medical examiner… (more)
