Advocacy for Abuse: A Mandated Reporter's Procedure

by Lain
for Associated Content
August 7, 2006

In all fifty states there are procedures and statutes that a mandated reporter must follow in order to report child abuse. These are mandatory, and mandated reporters are legally bound to report any suspected child abuse to the proper authorities using the statues and procedures of their state and district. Below are the procedures for California, and such reasonable suspicions are listed in penal code 11165.6 of California law. These include physical harm done to the child by means which are not accidental, sexual abuse, neglect as stated by related penal code, willful cruelty or unjustifiable punishment, unlawful corporal punishment, or abuse or neglect of a child in out-of-home care.

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