Passing the Protect Children from Predators Act: 

1. Accommodating the needs of childhood sexual abuse survivors by crafting a system that makes them and not the predators the priority. 

2. Identifying the child predators.

3. Finding more survivors of the same predator once a single survivor has come forward. 

4. Deterring institutions from hiding child sexual abuse. 

Passing the Protect Children from Predators Act will give us the tools protecting all children. Sex offender registries, increased sentences, and pedophile-free zones are ineffective without acknowledging that our problem is far beyond schools and churches. 

Allowing victim stories to be heard in court will uncover hidden predators helping us create better institutional practice policies and laws. Society’s need to identify and apprehend child predators does not expire with time. A Survivor’s access to justice should not either.  

References: Justice Denied, What America Must Do to Protect Its Children; Marci A. Hamilton, 2008; ISBN 978-0-521-88621-5