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Survivors of abuse “stormed out” of a Tuesday meeting with Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward about a bill to give victims more time to sue their abusers, while Ward’s spokeswoman said some survivors threw props at the senator before leaving.
Jillian Ruck, the executive director of the advocacy organization Child USA, told the USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania State Capital Bureau that the survivors who met with Ward grew increasingly frustrated in three minutes of speaking with the majority leader.
“It did not go well, and the survivors stormed out,” Ruck said.
The tense meeting reflected the growing discontent over whether Pennsylvania will pass a law to give those abused the right to sue their accusers after a constitutional amendment failed to get on this year s ballot due a clerical error.
Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward has been battling breast cancer since December and will undergo surgery, she said on a Pittsburgh radio show Tuesday.
Ward, a 64-year-old Westmoreland County Republican, told KDKA-AM s Marty Griffin that she was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in early December, shortly after becoming the first woman to serve as Senate majority leader.
She kept her situation quiet, though, until she was ready to go public.
“I didn’t want to be statewide news right after I won majority leader,” Ward said. We re doing fine
The mass in her breast was “very small,” Ward told Griffin.