Companies and universities try to set up 'required' reporting channels as a CYA mechanism and to handle the PR battle. Those private attempts to protect the company or university have nothing whatsoever to do with actual reporting rights and obligations.
Nothing in Pennsylvania law requires a party to go through a chain of reporting. Nothing in Pennsylvania law prohibits a party from reporting any knowledge they have of child abuse. Police will listen to anyone who has credible information about child abuse.
By law he had to go through proper channels . . .
Absolute, complete, 100%, total, unadulterated hogwash.
(Better listen to Scoutmaster, NEPA...he should know...with his own law industry background)
By law he had to go through proper channels . . . (NEPA)
Absolute, complete, 100%, total, unadulterated hogwash. (Scoutmaster)
Amen! Hogwash indeed.
The length JoePA apologists go to try to defend the indefensible.
I recall when the Okla State pulled a player from the Ok State - K State game...the player had been going 92 in a 60 zone and was arrested for DUI...
The way JoePa apologists play their game is to basically launch a crusade vs. any coach from pulling a player from a game "until the legal process has played out"...IF they were in ANY way consistent, that is...which they're not...'cause we don't see them goin to bat for all these players removed from rosters (either temp removal, or like BYU, more permanent)...
MORE Hogwash!!!
BYU even had a basketball player suspended from the roster after his girlfriend got pregnant.
There wasn't even a "legal process" to play out there...
Did NEPA go on various Web sites protesting such a roster removal?