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Arizona Supreme Court: clergy don't have to report child abuse confessions

Bishops kept Paul Adams's abuse of his six children secret for years, and lawyer Lynne Cadigan plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Rob Beschizza
Aug 02, 2026
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Lukas Bischoff Photograph / Shutterstock
Lukas Bischoff Photograph / Shutterstock

U.S. Border Patrol agent Paul Adams sexually abused all six of his children for at least seven years before he was caught. He killed himself after being charged, but not before investigators realized that bishops and other officials at the Church of Latter Day Saints had long been aware of what he was doing to his…

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