Eugene DePasquale released an ad highlighting Dave Sunday’s failure to protect survivors of sexual abuse. While serving as Auditor General, DePasquale reduced the state’s rape kit backlog by 90% in three years.
A new ad in the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s race is calling out York County’s Republican District Attorney Dave Sunday for his failure to protect children who were raped and sexually abused.
Sunday is running for Attorney General in the upcoming election against Pennsylvania’s former Democratic Auditor General Eugene DePasquale in the upcoming election.
The ad, which was released by DePasquale’s campaign earlier this week, is narrated by Matt Feldmeier, a Republican and retired Plum Borough police sergeant.
“As law enforcement, our duty is to protect the most vulnerable. That’s why even though I’m a Republican, I can’t support Dave Sunday for Attorney General,” Feldmeier says at the start of the ad.
The ad explains how Sunday failed to convict three teenagers who were accused of raping a 14-year old at gun point outside of the York County Fair in 2018.
It then highlights how a former York City police officer received no jail time and a five year probation sentence for sexually abusing a teenage girl.
At the time, the juvenile engagement officer was charged with five felonies, some of which included unlawful contact with a minor, dissemination of photos / film of child sex acts and contact with minor – sexual abuse. The officer eventually pled guilty to the corruption of minors, a misdemeanor.
Expect this to be an issue until the election November because while serving as Auditor General, one of DePasquale’s most notable accomplishments was reducing the state’s backlogged rape kits by almost 90%.
The Auditor General’s office defined a backlogged kit as one waiting for testing for 12 months or longer, and DePasquale’s office reduced the amount of backlogged kits from 3,127 to 339 in three years.
