Last week, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office released a report on a grand jury investigation into child sexual abuse by Catholic priests and religious leaders. The report details decades of abuse and cover-ups by leaders in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, with hundreds of children victimized. You can read the full report here. While the grand jury investigation into these crimes is ongoing, one of the most disturbing conclusions of this report is that no criminal c

For many victims of sexual assault, it may take years — or even decades — for them to fully come to grips with what they have experienced, and to acknowledge that they were sexually assaulted. This is also true for childhood victims of sexual assault, who may have not understood that what happened to them as children was abuse. Because it may take a number of years for a victim of sexual assault to come to terms with what has happened to her or him, we join our statewide orga