“If a mandated reporter is found out to Not report abuse, that person may lose their job!”
Disciplining a kid isn’t abuse though, so I don’t see how that law would apply. Surely if a police officer has the discretion to decide whether someone is so imminently dangerous he needs to shoot them, they have the discretion to decide whether a child has been disciplined or abused.
Sadly, I have to be up-to-date on what constitutes child abuse. The welts on her arms would be enough to justify a report. In former days, cops could let someone go by giving a bit of advice. Things are so over-controlled, so many small things are crimes, most of us are suffering through this unannouncd Depression era, that losing a livelihood is to be feared. Yeah, government, government, everywhere you turn, the government is watching.