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...
There’s often a hesitance in the legal community to have sexual abuse survivors testify about what happened. With this and other serious crimes, having to testify can re-traumatize the victim, bringing up terrible experiences in detail. Depending on whether the case...
After sexual abuse or sexual assault happens, the survivor is left with an immense potential for damages. Depending on what happened to them, they could face lifelong effects that cause flashbacks, make it hard to move forward with their lives, or result in expensive...
