I don't know about attorneys, but psychiatrists, in very specific circumstances, can write a Tarasoff letter, if they think someone is going to be harmed.
But you played a trick. Future actions are not the same thing as telling your attorney something you already did. Is it?
“But you played a trick. Future actions are not the same thing as telling your attorney something you already did. Is it?”
Well, the post I replied to already lumped in different categories of people with different reporting rules. I didn’t “play a trick”, I made a pretty general reply to a pretty general comment.
And child abuse and neglect aren’t generally “something you already did”. They are almost always a recurring situation. That’s why we have mandatory reporting laws, so there is no “wiggle room” for people to excuse their failure to report and allow the abuse to continue.