When you send your child off to school each day, you expect them to be taken care of and protected from harm, such as sexual abuse. It’s fair for parents to have that expectation, as schools have a duty to protect students against sexual abuse under Title IX....
Protecting children against abuse and sexual abuse should be a basic part of any school’s practices. When children are put in their care, we expect the school to keep them safe and to recognize their duty to keep predators away from children and report any issues to...
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) helps ensure students’ privacy. Much information is protected under FERPA, though some circumstances allow schools to disclose personal information without a student’s consent. For example, colleges and...
Pennsylvania’s children and their parents continue to be terrorized by child-predator teachers and school employees who use their positions of trust to sexually abuse students in their schools. According to Attorney Andrew Shubin, “the institutions that are designed...
The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee recently approved House Bill 462, which proposes a two-year window allowing child sexual abuse survivors of any age to file civil lawsuits holding perpetrators and the institutions that enabled and emboldened them accountable...
Facing an abuser in court is extremely frightening, and many avoid taking legal action because they cannot face their abuser again. Whether you must face the abuser in court may depend on what kind of legal action you take. Generally, sexual abuse victims have to face...
