Sentences with phrase «existing child abuse laws»
I propose a new law placed into the existing child abuse laws that would make teaching religion and a belief in a God before the age of 21 a crime.
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In its most recent resolution on the subject, the Episcopal Church declared in July 1988 that hard - core pornography abuses the self - images of women, children and men, and urged congregations to support then — Attorney General Edwin Meese's report with its call for stricter and tougher enforcement of already existing laws against pornography.
Senate Republicans and the Independent Democratic Conference are backing a bill today aimed at protecting child against abuse, arguing that existing laws are «overly complicated» to the point of being useless.
«Erin Merryn's Law recognizes that children themselves need to be not only aware of the dangers that exist in our society but provided with information and support to aid in avoiding abuse, exploitation and abduction.
(If it's their own children being abused, then they had better turn the guy in forthwith — even under existing law, covering that up can be risky.)
The penalties for not reporting child porn that one comes across, however indirectly, are far higher than the penalties under existing law for professionals who have contact with children and who do not report child abuse as required.
The House of Lords appears to have missed a golden opportunity to incrementally evolve the common law to extend the existing duty of care owed by social workers to children who have allegedly been abused, to their parents as well, which would have been a welcome, purposeful interpretation, in keeping with the spirit of Art 8.
Even the child welfare laws that exist to protect children from abuse and neglect are subject to controversy.
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is incorporated ``... for the purpose of awakening interest in the abuses to which children are exposed by... parents and guardians, and to help the enforcement of existing laws on the subject, procure needed legislation and for kindred work..Children is incorporated ``... for the purpose of awakening interest in the abuses to which children are exposed by... parents and guardians, and to help the enforcement of existing laws on the subject, procure needed legislation and for kindred work..children are exposed by... parents and guardians, and to help the enforcement of existing laws on the subject, procure needed legislation and for kindred work...»
To quote John E.B. Myers, a professor at McGeorge School of Law, University of Pacific, California, PAS «increases exponentially the skepticism of society generally about whether child abuse exists.»