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In a ruling on Friday, Cochise County Superior Court Judge Timothy Dickerson said the state’s clergy-penitent privilege excused two bishops and several other officials with the church, widely known as the Mormon church, from the state’s child sex abuse mandatory reporting law because Paul Adams initially disclosed during a confession that he was sexually abusing his daughter.
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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...
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