Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) has requested that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) hold a hearing examining the lessons of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.
“One of the most repugnant revelations from the Freeh report is that so many children were repeatedly victimized by Mr. Sandusky while a number of individuals who could have done something chose not to act,” Deutch said in a statement. “Given that the issue of child sexual abuse is too often ignored, we must examine the shortcomings in our legal system that fail to adequately compel adults to take action. If there is any chance that something good can come out of this terrible tragedy, we must focus the national attention on this case to the issue of child sex abuse and closely examine why this abuse continued uninterrupted at Penn State.”
