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Originally Posted by puzzle_bug1987
Once you're an adult what happened when you were a child isn't reportable under most circumstances. Otherwise every incident of childhood abuse people tell their therapists would have to be reported. Who would you report it too? The police aren't going to do anything.
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I don't believe this is accurate, at least not in all places.
In my own experience, when I was well into adulthood and going through the process to adopt a child, at the 11th hour--the baby had already been placed with us--someone from the adoption agency called to say that because they were aware of CSA I went through as a child, they'd have to report it since it hadn't ever been reported before.
In my case I lucked out because I was adopting in a different state than the state where the child was born/where the agency was located, and they follow the rules of the state where the child is being placed. However, it would have been reported otherwise.