The group is chaired by Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler.
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, leaves with attorney Karl Reminger, right, after jury selection was completed for Sandusky's trial on child sexual-abuse charges. Sandusky was found guilty on nearly all counts.
The task force will offer recommendations on how to improve state laws and procedures related to child protection and the reporting of child abuse.
Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler chairs the task force, which was formed after the discovery that Sandusky molested boys for years and university officials allegedly knew of some of the crimes but did not report them to authorities.
The task force will recommend a child advocacy center be stationed within a two-hour drive of any child in the state, Heckler told the Beaver County Times. The task force will also suggest new crimes, revised criminal codes and new policies, but Heckler did not detail them to the newspaper.
“If there had been a children’s advocacy center in Centre County in 1998 to 2000,” Heckler told the newspaper, “I’m telling you they would have heard about Jerry Sandusky then, and a decade of suffering by his victims would have been prevented.”
Sandusky will spend the next 30 years in jail and three university administrators face trial next year in the alleged coverup.
The report will be released 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Capitol's North Office Building in Harrisburg, according to the release. The task force was created by legislation in December and had its 11 members by mid-January.
The news conference will be streamed live on pasenategop.com.