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reporting

  1. Zoii

    US churches do not have to report child rapes.

    In 2020, the Supreme court in Montana determined that reports to church officials of rape and child sexual abuse are not necessarily obliged to report the offence to law enforcement. The unanimous decision of the US Supreme court found for Jehova witnesses setting precedence for all other...
  2. Occams Barber

    ACT Catholic priests to be required to break seal of confession

    ACT Catholic priests to be required to break seal of confession Priests in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) will soon be required to break the seal of confession to report child abusers after the ACT Legislative Assembly passed a bill to extend the mandatory reporting scheme to cover...