Clergy privilege bill fails
Title: N4T Investigators: Clergy privilege bill fails
Author: Lupita Murillo
Publisher: KVOA.com
News 4 Tucson Investigators
Date: 18FEB2021
TUCSON (KVOA) – A bill that would make it mandatory for clergy in Arizona to report child abuse to law enforcement has failed.Senator Victoria Steele of Tucson sponsored SB 1008 after learning some children in Cochise County were being abused by their father.
The church clergy were aware of this abuse and never reported it to law enforcement citing clergy privilege.
This is the second time Sen. Steele has introduced this bill.
Both times it’s failed even though there appears to be a lot of support for it.
She told News 4 Tucson Investigators, “I’m not giving up, and again I am incredibly disappointed.”
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