The rally, calling for mandatory reporting of child sex abuse, comes after an AP report revealed that the faith’s “help line” failed to protect sex abuse victims.
Free cookies at rally to gain support for removing the clergy exemption from mandatory reporting in cases of abuse and neglect, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022., R-Blanding, and Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, have also voiced support to close the loophole.
“I want people to know that this is not a Democrat or Republican issue,” Romero said. “I want to make sure that nobody feels like nobody’s listening to them.” Lundholm said in her experience with abuse, she received many spoken and unspoken messages to move on, forget or be silent about what happened. But she’s now breaking that silence to make sure survivors of abuse know they have support.
“If we as a people, as churches, as a state, are failing to protect our children — we are failing,” Lundholm said. “We are deeply heartbroken for those that were not protected because of the legal exceptions that are given to members of clergy. ... Today, we are here for you to make sure that no future child is left without that protection again.”insisting it had “significant flaws in its facts and timeline, which lead to erroneous conclusions.
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