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Priests: We won’t break seal of confession to report sex abuse

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    #152
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    equivariant wrote: »
    When you get professional counselling, the counsellor will tell you at the start that everything is confidential unless the counsellor believes that there is a risk to someone's immediate physical wellbeing (especially if a child is at risk). Counsellors are professionally obliged to report it to the authorities if they believe that a child's well being is at risk. There is no reason why priests in confessionals should be any different. They are bound by the rules and laws of society just like everyone else.

    Ah yes, but magic seal!

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    I'll get my coat.


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    #153
    nehemiah
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭nehemiah


    Gbear wrote: »
    In general, is it a crime to be aware of a crime and not tell the police?
    oldrnwisr wrote: »
    In general, no. The crime of misprision of felony was removed with the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1997

    Withholding information in relation to a serious offence (excluding sexual offences) was introduced (or re-introduced) by the s. 9 of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998. Withholding infomationin relation to a number of financial crimes was introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2011 and the current bill will extend the areas in which withholding information in regard to sexual offences committed against children and vulnerable.

    In fact, it appears that the only serious crimes that there is no obligation to report (or withhold information thereof) is sexual offences in relation to adults.


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