(Dario Lopez-Mills | AP) MJ embraces her adoptive mother, Nancy Salminen, in Sierra Vista, Ariz., Oct. 27, 2021. State authorities placed MJ in foster care after learning that her father, the late Paul Adams, sexually assaulted her and posted video of the assaults on the internet. A judge has ruled that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may not refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under the state’s “clergy-penitent privilege" in a lawsuit stemming from the abuse.
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