Catholic Churches Fight To Maintain Loophole In Child Sex Abuse Reporting
Channel: Atheist Republic
Date: 2022-10-14

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The Associated Press investigative team recently released their finding after examining more than 130 bills to amend child sex abuse reporting laws in the United States. The AP investigation concluded that "None of them succeeded in closing the clergy loophole." The loophole is the "clergy-penitent privilege," which exempts clergy and priests in all religious denominations from reporting child abuse heard in a confessional setting. In 2020, the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City heavily opposed House Bill 90 (HB90) in Utah. The church gathered 9,000 signed letters from its parishioners and sent them to Rep. Angela Romero, the bill's author. Romero, a Democrat, has been working on HB90 as part of her campaign against the sexual abuse of children. The bill was eventually axed in March 2020. The Catholic church in Utah used its well-funded lobbying infrastructure and coordinated with the Mormon church and Jehovah's Witnesses to further bolster their defense against bills like HB90. In August 2022, the AP reported that the Mormon bishop in Arizona had allowed the rape and abuse of MJ, a 5-year-old girl, by her father. The father continued sexually abusing the victim "for as many as seven more years, into her adolescence." Sen. Victoria Steele, a Democrat from Tucson, Arizona, said the church's power over the legislature makes it difficult to share stories like that of MJ.

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Catholic Churches Fight to Maintain Loophole in Child Sex Abuse Reporting
https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/catholic-churches-fight-maintain-loophole-child-sex-abuse-reporting 
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