The following is a qoute from the SanDiego Grand jury in the Dale Akiki case in 93-94
“To recieve Federal Funds, states also must pass laws requiring specific people such as teachers, health care proffessionals and law enforcement officials to report suspected Child Abuse, backed up by penalties for failure to report. In effect this provision has made it a criminal offense for people not to report suspected Abuse. The result has been over-reporting of even the most absurd and impossible accusations”.
For those who state that people don’t really report falsely well here’s one example.
In 2002 the state of Illinois referred 3,772 cases of intentionally false reports to the Federal government.
In 1986 Douglas Besharov the first Director of the National Center on CHild Abuse and Neglect stated “We now face an imminent social tragedy: the nationwide collapse of child protective efforts caused by a flood of unfounded reports”.
Sadly more the 20 years later he has proven to be correct at least in those communities where unfounded reports were allowed to flourish.
B’H our adherence to the laws of mesirah and the psukim of courageous Rabbonim Have prevented our communites from self destructing as well.
Let us Daven that the Rabbonim continue ho have the strength to hold up aginst the extreme pressure being brought on them by well meaning but severly misguided individuals.