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31 October 2016

Priests need not report confessions about child abuse, court says

Louisiana law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a religious confession, the state Supreme Court said Friday (Oct. 28).
The ruling came in an ongoing 2009 lawsuit against Roman Catholic authorities by parents who say their daughter, now an adult, was sexually abused by a parishioner at an Assumption Parish church.

http://www.nola.com/religion/index.ssf/2016/10/law_can_shield_priests_from_re.html