Clergy as Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect: Summary of State Laws
The United Methodist Church
Book of Discipline: ¶341.5:
"All Clergy of The United Methodist Church are charged to maintain all confidences inviolate, including confessional confidences, except in the cases of suspected child abuse or neglect or in cases where mandatory reporting is required by civil law."
See also Judicial Council Decision No. 936.
The Catholic Church has a special website devoted to preventing child abuse and
can be found at www.virtus.org.
Diocese of Little Rock information: http://www.dolr.org/protectingchildren/reportabuse.php
The Presbyterian Church also has information on child abuse and neglect: http://www.pcusa.org/resource/we-wont-let-it-happen-here-preventing-child-abuse-/
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Link
for abuse and reporting