York County father advocates for anti - grooming law after daughter abuse

A York County father is advocating for a Pennsylvania law to criminalize grooming minors, inspired by his daughter's involvement in a sexual abuse case with a former York City police officer in 2021. Father says former officer groomed his daughter Joseph Palmer Jr. was a juvenile enforcement officer with the York City Police Department. Palmer pleaded guilty to one charge of corruption of minors and received five years of probation, with requirements to abide by the terms of adult probation for sex offenders. Other charges in his case were dismissed, according to court documents. Palmer reportedly violated his probation after the fact. Chris McGhee, the father of the victim, argues that Palmer also groomed the