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Dickerson’s end-of-week ruling dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the basis of the state’s clergy-penitent privilege.
A man raped his daughter and an LDS bishop stayed silent about the assault. Arizona law allowed him to say nothing. Require clergy to report abuse.
Opinion: A bishop stays silent for years while a girl is being raped. Arizona law allowed him to do it and a key legislator wants to keep it that way.
An Arizona Superior Court judge ruled church officials who knew a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse.
PHOENIX – A Cochise County Superior Court judge has thrown out a bid by two survivors of family sexual abuse to sue the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints