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Woman sues church for reporting her husband's sex abuse confession to the police
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:33 am
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:33 am
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An Oregon woman whose husband is in prison for sexually abusing a child is suing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for reporting his confession to state authorities.
In the lawsuit, Kristine Johnson said her husband confessed his sexual abuse to clergy as required by church rules. That confession was passed along to state authorities, forming the basis of their investigation, she says.
She filed the lawsuit in Marion County Circuit Court last week and seeks $9.5 million for loss of income, emotional distress and her family's loss of her husband's companionship. The lawsuit, which argues the church went against its own policy that considers confessions confidential, also seeks an additional $40,000 for his criminal defense.
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plaintiff Kristine Johnson learned that her husband, Timothy Johnson, had engaged in inappropriate conduct with an underage girl.
"In response to that, plaintiff Kristine Johnson and Timothy Johnson followed the rules and scriptures of the church, which ... requires and admonish church members to 'confess their sins unto the brethren before the Lord,'" the lawsuit says.
But the church failed to advise the couple that if he followed the guidance and confessed his sins, it would report him to state authorities. The church should have warned her husband that his confession would not stay private, the lawsuit says.
Timothy Samuel Johnson, 47, was arrested in 2017 and is serving 15 years in prison in Pendleton, Oregon, for abusing an underage girl, according to the state Department of Corrections.
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Oregon is one of 28 states that considers clergy among professionals mandated by law to report known or suspected instances of child abuse or neglect. But that law makes some exceptions, and statutes in some states specify circumstances under which a communication is "privileged" or allowed to remain confidential.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:39 am to East Coast Band
tnhey should lock her dumbass up too
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:40 am to East Coast Band
That will be interesting. Does the Mormon Church have a "duty to report" requirement?
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:40 am to East Coast Band
That guy looks like a pedo
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:42 am to East Coast Band
People of the lord in which people have confessed serious crimes to need to do this more often, but they just need to figure out away so it doesn't look like the person of the lord told law enforcement.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:43 am to East Coast Band
- Catholic Church
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:47 am to East Coast Band
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This post was edited on 3/6/21 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:47 am to East Coast Band
The LDS acknowledges that Joseph Smith married an underage girl.
That whole rogue cult of Christianity is chock full of bizarre and unhealthy sexual practices.
That whole rogue cult of Christianity is chock full of bizarre and unhealthy sexual practices.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:50 am to East Coast Band
The church isn't required to read Miranda rights. frick her, her pedo husband, and her lawsuit.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:19 am to East Coast Band
What's up with these people from oregon and defending child molesters
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:20 am to East Coast Band
So she was protecting her child rapist husband so he could abuse more children and got mad at the church for getting his molesting arse off the street.
Got it.
Got it.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:23 am to PrivatePublic
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The church isn't required to read Miranda rights. frick her, her pedo husband, and her lawsuit.
And if the church is required to keep confessions confidential, no matter the subject?
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:27 am to Centinel
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And if the church is required to keep confessions confidential, no matter the subject?
They're not.
Who would regulate them like that? We shouldn't want the government telling a church what they have to do with confession. That's up to the church.
The church did the right thing here. Good for them in helping justice get served.
Edit: Hell, the parents of the child her husband sexually abused should sue the wife for knowing about it and protecting him.
This post was edited on 1/10/20 at 11:29 am
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:28 am to East Coast Band
Too bad he wasn't a Catholic. They might have invited him to join the priesthood.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:31 am to Centinel
It says in the article that state law is clear that clergy have a mandatory duty to report child abuse and neglect. This is the same as if it was discovered by the pediatrician, for example.
I would like to know if the wife can be charged as an accessory in some way. Or, if she had knowledge and did not report or actively discouraged her pastor from reporting, does that constitute obstruction?
I would like to know if the wife can be charged as an accessory in some way. Or, if she had knowledge and did not report or actively discouraged her pastor from reporting, does that constitute obstruction?
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:34 am to East Coast Band
Good on the church for doing the right thing
frick this woman and her lawsuit
frick this woman and her lawsuit
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:35 am to Centinel
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Does the Mormon Church have a "duty to report" requirement?
Pretty sure they all do if you’re trying to hurt yourself or someone else.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:36 am to Apollyon
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It says in the article that state law is clear that clergy have a mandatory duty to report child abuse and neglect. This is the same as if it was discovered by the pediatrician, for example.
unless it was a privileged communication
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:42 am to Rep520
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the parents of the child her husband sexually abused should sue the wife for knowing about it and protecting him.
it was her daughter
This post was edited on 1/10/20 at 1:31 pm
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