 Keetch was the church's lawyer in a Washington case where the church was sued because a bishop had failed to report accusations of sexual abuse by a girl in his ward, yet Washington law does not require clergy to report such allegations.In 2010 Keetch responded to Marci Hamilton's claims that the LDS response to child sexual abuse was on the same level as that of the Catholic Church.Keetch pointed out the help-line to aid bishops in dealing with abuse, and various other policies and actions the church took on the matter.