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Professor Jennifer Drobac talked about how Indiana law requires people who believe that a child has been a victim of abuse or neglect "shall" make a report to authorities. Her comments came in a news story in the Goshen News published September 22 regarding allegations of child abuse against priests in the Fort Wayne-South Bend Catholic Diocese.

In the story, Professor Drobac talked specifically about Indiana law, which says that "an individual who has a reason to believe that a child is a victim of child abuse or neglect shall make a report." She explained that "In Indiana, if you know a child is being abused, you’re obligated to report it.”

Professor Drobac’s latest book, Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law, was published in 2016 by University of Chicago Press. Professor Drobac was a Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2018 semester at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. She was there conducting research for her next book, The Myth of Consent, which she is co-writing with Professor Oliver Goodenough. That work will explore the neuroscience of adult decision making and how the science should influence law reform. She is the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at IU McKinney.