From Georgetown Law: Child abuse reporting: rethinking child protection

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22760287

JAMA. 2012 Jul 4;308(1):37-8.

Child abuse reporting: rethinking child protection.

Kim SC, Gostin LO, Cole TB.

Source

O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

"Religious institutions, colleges, and schools have close ties to their communities, and the integrity of their employees is a matter of upmost public concern. These institutions should adopt stringent child protection policies because many sexual predators, often familiar with state law, seek out relationships with children in which they can assume positions of responsibility for the children.⁷Institutions have a responsibility to be vigilant in preventing and detecting child abuse by members of their community."