The recent sexual abuse scandal at Penn State is similar to the abuse scandals that have plagued the Catholic Church in recent years.
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Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Legal analyst, Slate Magazine): In 2003, June, Phil Kline, the attorney general, who is a vocal abortion opponent, issued a legal opinion, in which he said that all state health care professionals had to report any sexual activity by anyone under the age of 16 to state social services.
The Pulitzer panel praised the Patriot-News and Ganim for "courageously revealing" reporting on the sexual abuse allegations against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky.
An example of a case where this independent investigation worked is the Louis Freeh Report regarding Penn State and the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal.
Gov. Tom Corbett announced a federal lawsuit against the NCAA asking a court to throw out all sanctions against Penn State over the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal in Pennsylvania.
The Department of Education in Washington DC has said it is launching an investigation into whether Penn State failed to report incidents of sexual abuse on campus - a federal requirement.
Mike McQueary, a Penn State assistant football coach now on leave, told the grand jury he saw Mr. Sandusky engaged in some sort of sexual activity with a youth in a Penn State shower and alerted Mr. Paterno, who was later fired, in part, for not alerting law-enforcement officials.
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By a 2 to 1 vote, the court of appeals said that the state's interest in investigating child sexual abuse, outweighs the minor's rights to privacy.
Last year, there were more than 200, 000 suspensions from state schools in England for offences including sexual abuse, assault, and actual or threatened violence, according to government data.
"I stand by our conclusion that four of the most powerful people at Penn State failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade, " he said.
Gary Gates, a demographer at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law who researches sexual orientation law and public policy, says the state itself would see a "noticeable economic benefit" from legalized same-sex marriage.
But to date, all the instances of reported sexual abuse occurring between 1962 and 1996 are beyond the state's statute of limitations, which for all felonies is five years and for misdemeanors is two years.
Nobody has worked harder than me in the Illinois state legislature to make sure that victims of sexual abuse were dealt with, partly because I've had family members who were victims of sexual abuse and I've got two daughters who I want to protect.
It occurred when, within a week of the disclosure of sexual assault and cover-up in its athletic program, Penn State did the right thing.
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Al-Turki, now at the Limon Correctional Facility, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison after being convicted on a dozen counts of sexual contact, theft, extortion and false imprisonment in 2006, a state document shows.
In 2008, New York was the first state to establish a Safe Harbor Law to decriminalize underage victims of sexual exploitation.
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"When the details aren't abstract and people are evaluating actual situations and people, the stakes seem much higher for calling behaviour sexual harassment, " says Justine Tinkler, an assistant professor of sociology at Louisiana State University.
"We ask that the league immediately issue a statement that any form of discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation by league teams or players against potential recruits or players constitutes a violation of state, local and, in some cases, contractor law and will not be tolerated, " Schneiderman said in a letter dated Thursday and released to news organizations.
In a statement to NBC News, lawyers for that man said he had "heard enough from Jerry Sandusky", adding he and other victims were "focused on healing and holding Penn State accountable for choosing to protect Jerry Sandusky and themselves instead of protecting children from years of horrific sexual abuse".
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