Reporting child abuse

MINNEAPOLIS – A federal judge denied defendant’s appeal of his sex offender conviction, finding that a girl’s therapist was required to tell police that the defendant had sex with his children’s 17-year-old babysitter, even if the girl did not speak to her therapist about the affair until she was age 18.

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