Arizona Supreme Court upholds Latter-day Saint priest-penitent privilege in sex abuse case via KSLcom
The decision upheld a Dec. 15 ruling by the Arizona Court of Appeals, which also had ruled in favor of the church in a lawsuit filed by three children of Paul Adams, a former church member who died by suicide in 2017 while in jail after he was arrested for child pornography for filming and distributing his sexual abuse of the girls.
The children sued last year, naming the church, two bishops and other church members and alleging they had been negligent not to report Adams after he made a private spiritual confession to his bishop in 2010 and was excommunicated in 2013. The church said it was following Arizona law's clergy-penitent privilege, which shields spiritual confessions from government, police investigations and courts to preserve what some faiths call the ""Let me be perfectly clear," Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,during the church's semiannual worldwide general conference gathering. "Any kind of abuse of women, children, or anyone is an abomination to the Lord. ...
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