U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court to Decide Need for Warrants in Child Sex-Abuse Investigations
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police and social workers must get a warrant before interviewing children at school about suspected sexual abuse by family members.
Twenty-seven states urged the Supreme Court to take up the case after the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals required a warrant, absent “exigent circumstances” or parental consent, SCOTUSblog reports. The appeals court ruling overturned the Oregon conviction of Nimrod Greene, accused of abusing a 9-year-old child, the Associated Press reports.
The court accepted and consolidated two cases raising the issue: Camreta v. Greene and Alford v. Greene.
