Clergy privilege in child abuse case

[Jazzy]

From the article:

"The ruling was issued April 7 but not released to the public until Tuesday. A lawsuit filed by child sex abuse victims accuses the church, widely known as the Mormon church, two of its bishops, and other church members of conspiracy and negligence in not reporting church member Paul Adams for abusing his older daughter as early as 2010.

This negligence, the lawsuit argues, allowed Adams to continue abusing the girl for as many as seven years, a time in which he also abused the girl’s infant sister..."

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What are your thoughts about them knowing these children were suffering, but chose not to do anything because it would go against their religious freedom?

 

[Messy]

They excommunicated him. They said they should go to the police, but they refused. Then they had to go to the police themselves or child protection services.
They say he had told someone that it had only happened once in the past. That's dumb. Same thing you see in Holland. Some guy attacks girls with a knife. Gets a month jail and a slap on the wrist and then he just rapes and kills someone and they're like oh how could that happen?