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Gov. Wolf Calls Special Session Focused on Allowing Childhood Sexual Abuse Victims to Sue their Abusers

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State lawmakers will meet on Monday for a special session, ordered by Gov. Wolf, to consider giving victims of childhood sexual abuse a chance to sue their abusers – even if the abuse happened beyond the legal statute of limitations.

WITF’s Brett Sholtis reports, this legislation has failed in the past, but this time around there is one big difference.

Read the full story here.

(Original air-date: 1/6/23)

Brett Sholtis is a health reporter for WITF/Transforming Health. Sholtis is the 2021-2022 Reveal Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grantee for Mental Health Investigative Journalism with the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. His award-winning work on problem areas in mental health policy and policing helped to get a woman moved from a county jail to a psychiatric facility. Sholtis is a University of Pittsburgh graduate and a Pennsylvania Army National Guard Kosovo campaign veteran.