It is a witch hunt against the Catholic Church

To the Times:

The U.S. Department of Education commissioned studies by child sex abuse expert Carol Shakeshaft. She found that our public schools have 100 times the sexual abuse as the Catholic Church.

There has never been a grand jury investigation of the public schools or any other institution that deals with children. What about the public schools, Boy Scouts, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim institutions? It is so obvious that this is not about children or if it were all these other institutions would also come under HB261. It is about a witch hunt against the Catholic Church and making political points while allowing all these other institutions will be free to sexually abuse children.

The following representatives are for HB261: Rep Jamie Santora, R-163 of Upper Darby; Rep. Alex Charlton R-165 of Springfield; Rep. Chris Quinn, R-168 of Middletown; Rep. Stephen Barrar, R-160 of Upper Chichester; Rep. Brian Kirkland, D-159 of Chester, Rep. Margo Davidson, D-164 of Upper Darby, Rep. Leanne Krueger-Braneky, D-161 of Swarthmore.

Charlton is so clueless that he thinks that the sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was pedophilia in nature. It was not. It was homosexual in nature. About 90 percent of the victims were post-pubescent young males abused by men.

Rep. Greg Vitali, D-166 of Haverford, has freely admitted that HB261 is a witch hunt by his statement: “This bill would’ve exposed our public schools to lawsuits and that could result in higher school taxes or less money for pupil services.”

You see it’s not about saving the children; it’s

about getting the Catholic Church because all that settlement money will come from Catholics and not Pennsylvania taxpayers. If public schools came under HB261 then they could sue and get large monetary settlements, but that would cost the state taxpayers and votes for the weasels that are pushing for HB261. Aren’t all children worth it? Apparently not, if they are not all included in HB261.

Patrick G. Carson,

Norwood