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(16,683 posts) Tue Sep 8, 2020, 02:15 PM Sep 2020

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-08/queensland-law-jail-priests-not-reporting-child-sex-confessions/12642144

Queensland passes law to jail priests for not reporting confessions of child sexual abuse

By state political reporter Allyson Horn

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Do they also require them to report other confessed crimes, TreasonousBastard Sep 2020 #1

How are preists like doctors and lawyers? Eko Sep 2020 #2

There is probably no primal right to privacy and ones we have.. TreasonousBastard Sep 2020 #3

You see a lawyer for counsel Eko Sep 2020 #4

The law is written and operated by people of many states... TreasonousBastard Sep 2020 #5

Moral and ethical codes do not supersede the law. Eko Sep 2020 #6