
1638: The Mormon Abuse AP Article and The Church's Response
Mormon Stories Podcast
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The Bishop's Penitent Privilege Requires the Bishop to Report Adam's Abuse
In the article, it says that when bishop herod calls the help line, the church officials, the lawyers, the parilegals, whoever on the kurmconke mormon church help line told him the state's clergy penitent privilege required him to keep adam's abuse confident. It seems like that wouldbe a misstatement of arison a law. And there might be some confusion between what the bishop thought and what he felt was being said to him. In all the states where clergy are allowed to report if they want to, i would think that in all theStates where clergy areallowed to report if we're going to get into legal complications alot of people don't
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