Judge Laura Cardinal ruled that Paul Adams waived his right to keep his confessions secret when he posted videos of himself sexually abusing his daughters online, boasted of the abuse on social media, and confessed to federal law enforcement agents.
An Arizona judge overseeing a high-profile lawsuit accusing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of conspiring to cover up child sex abuse has ruled that the church may not refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under the state's"clergy-penitent privilege."
The lawsuit accuses two Arizona bishops and church leaders in Salt Lake City of negligence in not reporting the abuse and allowing Adams to continue abusing his older daughter for as many as seven years, a time in which he also abused the girl's infant sister. The church has filed a legal motion asking Cardinal to delay implementing her order until it contests her findings with the Arizona Court of Appeals. Without the delay, church lawyers said, information it considers confidential under the clergy-penitent privilege would be released to attorneys for the Adams children and, potentially, the public.
. The AP found that a church"abuse help line" used by Herrod and Mauzy to contact church attorneys is part of a system that can easily be misused by church leaders to divert abuse accusations away from law enforcement and instead to church attorneys who may bury the problem, leaving victims in harm's way.
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