NEW ORLEANS
— 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.
The ruling came in an ongoing 2009 lawsuit against Catholic authorities by parents who say their daughter, now an adult, was sexually abused by a parishioner at an Assumption Parish church.
http://www.wral.com/court-law-can-shield-priests-from-reporting-abuse-evidence/16172450/
The ruling came in an ongoing 2009 lawsuit against Catholic authorities by parents who say their daughter, now an adult, was sexually abused by a parishioner at an Assumption Parish church.
http://www.wral.com/court-law-can-shield-priests-from-reporting-abuse-evidence/16172450/
