A Pennsylvania man found by an administrative tribunal to have sexually abused his 3-year-old step-granddaughter fits the definition of “perpetrator” within the state Child Protective Services Law, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
A split en banc panel affirmed the decision of the Department of Public Welfare’s appeals bureau, a decision that came after an administrative law judge ordered the man’s ChildLine Registry record expunged despite finding that he had sexually abused the child. The ALJ’s decision came down to the statutory definition of perpetrator, which the judge had found the man — described only as T.W. — fell outside.
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