Mandated Reporting: Helpful or Harmful?

The issue of abuse doesn't have a one dimensional solution. As a survivor of abuse herself, Latter-day Saint researcher, Jennifer Roach, shares some of the potential complications with mandatory reporting.

[@kittyestes3656]

Yes I have known people that report to be vindictive but the system is so overburdened right now that they are hurting kids that actually need help :( If you ever called cps on someone out of spite you should be imprisoned.

[@dkoch1271]

Punish false reporting.

[@bippitybopitybooty1127]

Well it's hard to do that because you may very well have a good Samaritan who really believes a child is in danger when they may not be. So those people who were truly trying to protect a child will be punished as well and so no one will say anything in fear of the repercussions.
If there's actual hard evidence of falsifying a report, then obviously sure. But you'd be hard-pressed to find that - usually it's eyewitness accounts.
And litigation is much harder to go through with than what you may believe. It costs money and even more time and more resources to charge someone with a crime and go to trial.
I don't know what the answer is, but it's obviously a problem that needs a solid resolution other than a flippant "well just charge the false reporters"

[@Kalain2237]

It’s always more complicated than it seems. No single solution is a silver bullet. Nuance and complexity is what we need to get comfortable with to solve this problem.

[@whitneypay515]

It is a hard because you are exposing the victims too. That also has had devastating consequences.

[@Purpleturtlehurtler]

How about not letting cult members get away with being sexual predators?

[@Charles.Wright]

Do you have some in mind?

[@haloblokbuster7991]

Dude, do you really think calling us a cult will change anything? Honestly, if Christ’s church hurts you so much, why don’t you “let go” and move on instead of yapping and calling us names to make you feel better? Your response goes no where? Do you even have any proof that we are a cult? If you call us a cult, then at not all Christian churches and all religions cults? What research do you have on us to call us a cult? Have you even read our Book of Mormon with intent to find out truth? Or maybe even the Bible too? Please, if you really dislike our church then leave it alone? It’s not doing anything to you?

[@davevine22]

Who is advocating for that?

[@Kalain2237]

@purpleturtlehurtler doesn’t know the whole “cult” agrees with him

[@whitneypay515]

Teachers are more likely to abuse children. You should also call out the school systems for protecting predators.

[@kimberlytousley3450]

❤

[@derekquindry]

The abuse they find stays the same because they aren't actually investigating properly and they are just ignoring the problem. The reports went up because it's rampant. The abuse is rampant because the abusers know the church will protect them if they get caught.

[@davevine22]

What a ridiculous statement.

[@Kalain2237]

You have a predetermined bias in mind and any facts you see that confront your bias you ignore. Check your hatred for church members. Maybe is unjustified.

[@blazewallber]

This is icky