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Sen. Comitta Backs Bills to Combat Sex Assaults

Sen. Comitta Backs Bills to Combat Sex Assaults

A package of four bills aimed at strengthening protections for students and preventing and combating sexual assault on college campuses has been introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature, state Senator Carolyn Comitta said. Comitta, a member of the Pennsylvania...

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Recent Supreme Court Decision

Recent Supreme Court Decision

Pennsylvania's high court dealt a blow to victims of child sexual abuse, throwing out a lawsuit by a woman whose lower court legal victory had given hope to others with similarly outdated claims who'd sued in the wake of a landmark report that documented decades of...

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Monahan Law Practice Supports the Catholic Worker

Monahan Law Practice Supports the Catholic Worker

November, 2020: Monahan Law Practice Supports the Catholic Worker The Catholic Worker movement was started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in New York in the 1930’s.  For over fifty years beginning in the late 1940’s when my mother and her twin sister volunteered for...

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Justice Prevails. Ex-priest gets prison for sex assaults

Justice Prevails. Ex-priest gets prison for sex assaults

July, 2020: Bucks County Judge Jeffrey Finley sentenced Trauger to 18-36 months in prison In 2012 a civil lawsuit was filed by Dan Monahan against Francis Trauger for abusing a young boy in Bucks County.  Unfortunately, the lawsuit was eventually dismissed when the...

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Deadline Set for Harrisburg Diocese Clergy Abuse Claims

Deadline Set for Harrisburg Diocese Clergy Abuse Claims

May 19, 2020: Bankruptcy Judge Sets November 13, 2020 Deadline for Harrisburg Diocese Clergy Abuse Claims. In an order signed by Chief Bankruptcy Judge Henry Van Eck, survivors of sexual abuse by clergy in the Harrisburg Diocese have until November 13, 2020 to file a...

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