If a shaken baby is taken to a Pennsylvania hospital and doctors and police can't figure out who shook the child, it might not get reported as child abuse.
If a teacher, child care provider or nurse is told of sexual abuse, they tell a superior, who is supposed to report the crime to police.
And corporal punishment isn't considered abuse, unless it meets a high standard of causing pain.
On Wednesday, this changes.
A slew of bills developed in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University go into effect, changing the way abuse is reported and managed in Pennsylvania.
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