How can a lawyer get sexual deviance evaluation and treatment for an offending client without increasing the clients legal jeopardy?
Often a sex offender wants treatment for his deviance. He may want it because it will improve his prospects in the legal system, or for healing, or for both these reasons. Getting sexual deviance evaluation and treatment is perilous. The process usually includes taking the client’s complete sexual history. Mandatory reporting laws generally require the persons who provide sexual deviance evaluation and treatment to report to the authorities any child sex crime that comes to their attention. That could lead to the client facing a new charge. If the police are already investigating your client for a child sex offense, most of these providers would not construe the law to require them to report anything they learned about that offense from your client. But often sex offenders are not caught the first time. If your client has committed another sex offense, the evaluator will probably be obliged to report it. There is another complication. Sex offenders often lie to themselves and their law
