Reaction to Penn State: It's Happened Here. It Needs to Stop, Official Says
Howard County Board of Education member Brian Meshkin is proposing support of a criminal penalty for not reporting child sex abuse.
In the aftermath of the Penn State University scandal, Howard County Board of Education member Brian Meshkin is asking colleagues to consider supporting legislation that will make Maryland child sexual abuse laws tougher. Such cases hit home for Meshkin. "I asked myself, 'Could something like Penn State happen here?' and the answer is 'Yes, it could,'" Meshkin said. "It already has. "We've already had instances here in Howard County where teachers and coaches have engaged in this awful conduct," he said. "For three out of my four high school years, I worked with a man who was sexually abusing children." Klaude Krannebitter, Meshkin's former basketball coach at Glenelg High School and a physical education teacher at Glenwood Middle School…
Polly
8:03 am on Saturday, November 19, 2011
It is difficult for me to imagine any other crime that is so disturbing, disgusting, reprehensible, and woefully under reported as child sexual molestation. It has devastating life long effects on it's victims. And as bad as that is, pedophilia is a sickness, albeit incurable, it is so much more reprehensible that those that witness it or become aware of it sit idly by allowing the perpetrator to… more ›