DELAWARE
Daily Journal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 09, 2015
WILMINGTON, Delaware — A Delaware judge is set to hear arguments in a civil lawsuit by the attorney general’s claiming that elders of a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation failed to report an unlawful sexual relationship between a woman and a 14-year-old boy, both of whom were congregation members.
State law requires any person, agency, organization or entity who knows or in good faith suspects that a child is being abused or neglected to call a 24-hour hotline. The law specifically states that the reporting requirements apply to health care workers and organizations, school employees, social workers, psychologists and law enforcement officials.
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