PRINCETON FC Official FC Bayern Youth Soccer Partner

New Jersey is a mandatory reporting State. This means that any person with reasonable cause to believe that a child has been abused or neglected must report those concerns immediately.

Under the SafeSport Act, the reporting obligation is triggered when a mandatory reporter becomes aware of information that give reason to suspect a child has suffered an incident of child abuse. Child abuse includes physical or mental injury, sexual abuse or exploitation, or negligent treatment of a child. Sexual Abuse is defined to include the employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of a child to engage in, or assist another person to engage in, sexually explicit conduct or the rape, molestation, prostitution, or other form of sexual exploitation of children or incest with children. Mental Injury means harm to a child's psychological or intellectual functioning which may be exhibited by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal or outward aggressive behavior, or a combination of those behaviors, which may be demonstrated by a change in behavior, emotional response or cognition.