Student Making Threats Against My Daughter

SodiumFree
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:05:54 +0000

Thanks, jym626.

What I wanted to make clear was that the mandatory reporting requirements that calla1 talked about apply to child abuse and neglect situations. That’s true of the 24-hour reporting requirement you cite as well. Again, I just want to make sure people reading this thread don’t think that the child abuse/neglect mandatory reporting requirements apply more generally.

There is statutory and case law on the duty to warn in other cases (as when one adult threatens another adult), but that duty does not have nearly as clear-cut requirements as the child (and elder) abuse situations. (Even though I agree that defining a “reasonable cause to believe” in child abuse situations is not always so easy as one might think.)