Doubting child sex abuse allegations
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- Category: Expert court writers
- Created: Monday, 20 March 2017 08:12
- Written by The Liz Library
Forensic child custody evaluator standards and guidelines: repeat the same formulaic language and diagnoses in multiple custody evaluation reports [ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: "...in my neck of the woods this is a fad whose impact peaked about five years ago. At that time I would always have at least one case I was working on that had vague allegations about possible sexual abuse. At one point I was working on two cases simultaneously where there were almost identical vague allegations made by people represented by the same attorney.
One local Family Court Judge addressed the local Family Law bar and said that he was considering filing ethics charges against attorneys who represented these types of allegations and the practice seems to have slowed considerably since then. Now the new favorite allegation seems to be domestic violence in the form of overcontrol and emotional abuse." (New York doctorate-level MHP, December 29, 2005).
[ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: "In reviewing my posts and talking with some peers it seems to me that a discussion of how parents inadvertently or intentional influence children to believe they have been abused sexually and/or physically, and if that abuse will subsequently translate into fear reactions at the mention of the parent, and/or in response to the parent's impending or direct physical presence may require my submission of a research paper on the matter to a journal rather than posts to the list and evolving discussion. My interest is in the following matters and I would appreciate any input regarding them, including references, except in the area of suggestibility which I think I know fairly well... " (California doctorate-level MHP, November 21, 2006).
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