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Panel backs tougher grading, sentencing enhancement for adults in authority who corrupt minors
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee unanimously reported House Bill 355 as amended; the bill raises penalties for adults in positions of authority who corrupt a minor and adds a sentencing enhancement for mandatory reporters under an adopted amendment.
The House Judiciary Committee unanimously reported House Bill 355 to the floor after adopting an amendment that directs the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing to provide a sentencing enhancement where the defendant is a mandatory reporter.
Committee counsel said the bill amends Title 18, Section 6301 (corruption of minors) to increase the offense grading to a third-degree felony when “a person in a position of authority corrupts the morals of a minor,” and to a…
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