¶ … child sexual abuse and the psychologists view on how to achieve the truth from new methods rather than seeking results from tainted evidence. The article used was from the article "Getting to the truth in Child Abuse Cases: New Methods."
"Getting to the Truth in Child Abuse Cases: New Methods."
On What points do psychologists agree concerning children's reports on sexual abuse? On what points are there still debate?
Psychologists look at several views when a child reports sexual abuse to the authorities, how the report was made and arose, was this report taken through prior questioning or suggestions such as leading questions to the child and his or her family.
Moreover it has been seen that man researchers through over five hundred studies that have been conducted on a children's system of accepting statements and the extremis of how those suggestions go by form of mental implantation by interviewers as they can influence many of the recollections the child or children may have and therefore taint any information gleaned.
However there still remains the debate that argues that the accuracy of many of the children's stories and their resistance to how much information they actually release about their abuse is sometimes disjointed, many researchers agree on how the children should be interviewed to avoid this form of taint in evidence, for it was clearly seen that if a child is pushed and prodded in the wrong way he or she may give the...
Rephrase the question to fit with the guidelines set by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).
An example of a leading question would be "Your teacher touched you on the chest didn't she?" Or to give a suggestive question " Did your teacher touch your chest?" these are leading and suggestive questions to rephrase these questions to fit in with the AACAP guidelines would make the question like this "has an adult at school ever touched you anywhere on your body?" By forming this type of question you are removing the suggestion of the teacher and therefore there is less influence upon the information gleaned.
Question 3.
Why might the AACAP argue against repeated questioning of child witnesses? What aspect of human memory makes this practice dangerous?
The AACAP might possibly argue that excessive and repeated questioning of child witnesses due to the amount of interviews and repetitious questioning couple with the many questions that could be classed as leading as they believe that a memory is not filled with imaginative acts and there may be severe tainting of evidence due to a confusion of memories.
Question 4.
What AACAP guidelines did Washington police violate in the 1994 Wenactchee sex ring case? Why do we suspect…
