Everyone Knew Roy Moore Dated High School Girls, Says Former Colleague
And they thought it was “weird,” according to former deputy district attorney.
A former prosecutor who worked in Alabama with GOP Senate nominee
Roy Moore in the early 1980s told CNN on Saturday that it was “common knowledge” that Moore dated teenagers — and people thought it was “weird.”
“It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls. Everyone we knew thought it was weird,” former Etowah County deputy district attorney Teresa Jones told CNN national correspondent Alexander Marquardt. “We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall. But you really wouldn’t say anything to someone like that.”
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More corroboration from a former colleague.
If everybody knew that he was dating teenagers but didn't report it, is breaking the law. And so her and whomever their license to practice law must be stripped from them, and charged for accessory after the fact. But I guessed that the statue of limitation will prevent them from going to jail, but it won't stop their license being revoked. But it did not happen. It's because that they themselves knows that not reporting child abuse can get them into a lot of unwanted trouble. Especially law suits. They are as much responsible than the assailant.
What are Mandatory Reporting Laws?
Mandatory reporting laws differ for each state when it comes to
child abuse – which includes physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse. However, it's important to remember that many of these laws also cover child neglect. In some states, these laws require that people in certain professions report child abuse and neglect to a proper authority, such as a law enforcement agency or child protective services. In other states, the mandatory reporting laws require that
any person who suspects child abuse or neglect report any such instance.
Mandatory Reporting Laws: Child Abuse and Neglect
Mandatory Reporters of Child abuse and neglect
All States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have statutes identifying persons who are required to report suspected child maltreatment to an appropriate agency, such as child protective services, a law enforcement agency, or a State’s toll-free child abuse reporting hotline.
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/manda.pdf
Accessory After the Fact
While merely failing to report a crime is one thing, helping to conceal a crime is another. A person can generally be charged with accessory after the fact, or
aiding and abetting, if he or she wasn't actually present during the commission of a crime, but took actions to conceal the crime or help the perpetrators avoid capture.
Failure to Report a Crime - FindLaw