Arkay
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Mandated reporter definitions vary significantly from state to state. In some states all adults are mandatory reporters. Also technically we do not know if ES reported anything prior to PS’s death. As a physician mom who has reported non patient (and in my case also non spouse or relative) reports and watched CPS presumably screen it out multiple times until the unthinkable happened, CPS doesn’t always intervene appropriately.
Respect for your position.
In my state, NY, as a teacher I was a mandated reporter. Anytime, I mean anytime at all that a child told us or wrote in an essay something that suggested harm, it was my duty to report it.
It was not my duty to investigate it, but we all had to have a documented trail of the child’s allegations and steps we took to report… to the guidance counselor, the principal etc.
My students were 8th graders and could speak for themselves, unlike a younger child.
Since the mother here knew CS was habitually endangering his daughters, I wonder if she took steps, concrete steps, to report it to LE or court. There would be a paper trail.
IMO the evidence suggests she did not. She scolded him, uselessly.
If she wasn’t mandated as an Arizona physician, IMO the law of being a mother should’ve made her desperate to get the children out of danger.
JMO
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