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At the end of 2023, the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape rebranded and combined with the group Respect Together [31] and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. The new name was the Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect. On December 18, 2023, the 20-year-long CEO, Karen Baker, retired from the organization.
After Pennsylvania strengthened its mandatory reporting laws to prevent child abuse, a flood of unfounded reports followed, affecting poor families the most.
The criteria for reporting vary significantly based on jurisdiction. [11] Typically, mandatory reporting applies to people who have reason to suspect the abuse or neglect of a child, but it can also apply to people who suspect abuse or neglect of a dependent adult or the elderly, [12] or to any members of society (sometimes called Universal Mandatory Reporting [UMR]).
Nationwide, there was a 2348% increase in hotline calls from 150,000 in 1963 to 3.3 million in 2009. [7] In 2011, there were 3.4 million calls. [8] From 1992 to 2009 in the US, substantiated cases of sexual abuse declined 62%, physical abuse decreased 56% and neglect 10%.
Jun. 10—The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Monday denied an appeal by a Dennison Township man who challenged his lengthy state prison sentence for downloading and sharing child sexual abuse ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Dozens of children who were sent to juvenile detention centers and similar facilities in Pennsylvania suffered physical and sexual abuse including violent rapes, according ...
Municipal police (where operating) – 986, Crisis Management Centre (focus depends on voivodeship) – 987, Electricity emergency – 991, Gas emergency – 992, Heat engineering emergency – 993, Water emergency – 994, Child alert (operated by Police) – 995, Counterterrorism emergency – 996, Missing children (EU hotline) – 116 000 ...
In May 2016, an interim report by the Auditor General showed that in 2015 nearly 42,000 calls to Childline, Pennsylvania's hotline for reports of child abuse, went unanswered, up from 6,780 in 2014. Furthermore, only 0.005% of calls were overseen by a supervisor. [ 23 ]