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Clergy members could become mandatory reporters of child abuse

by By Mary Murphy, Washington State Journal, WNPA
| February 12, 2024 5:57 PM

OLYMPIA — When Sen. Noel Frame, D-Seattle, learned how Jehovah’s Witness elders in Spokane had covered up child sexual abuse for years, she looked to the law for answers. 

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