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Ashley's avatar

Is there any evidence that perpetrators even confess this? There have been enough people sent to prison for CSA and I’ve never read a story where someone admitted to confessing a crime let alone an ongoing one. Of course we’d only know if they admitted it but it’s so weird how many governments seem to think this is a risk with no evidence.

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Keith Cummings's avatar

As a priest, Ashley, I can tell you that people confess everything. It is one of the greatest honors of my life that the people place such complete trust in my fidelity to the seal that they will tell me what they won't tell anyone else.

This is why laws like these are meaningless. If someone walked into my confessional, gave me his (her) name, address, phone number and biometric data and confessed ANYTHING, I would never reveal it.

As several of my brother priests have said, "Send me to prison, when I die, I'll be good with Jesus."

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