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Fall 2009 Issue: Therapy Animals Helping Traumatized Children

October 22, 2009

Like most pet owners, I have experienced how therapeutic a pet’s unconditional love can be during times of stress. It has not surprised me, therefore, to see many organizations, counselors and health care professionals formally recognize this.

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Volume 1, Issue 12: The Moment of Truth: Making the Case in Closing Argument

October 12, 2009

It has long been considered, and is widely accepted as best practices to respond to cases of child abuse as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT

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Spring 2009 Issue: A Forensic Interviewer’s Perspective on Digital Recording of Children

March 23, 2009

Many articles have been written about police interrogations of suspects and recording technology for custodial interviews. However, little has been written about the utilization of recording technology for child forensic interviews.

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Volume 1, Issue 4: American Humane Launches Pets and Women’s Shelters (PAWS)™ Program

February 26, 2009

In the mid-1990s, as a new assistant prosecutor in Michigan assigned to District Court, much of my misdemeanor criminal trial docket was filled with domestic violence cases.

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Volume 1, Issue 5: Picture This: Photographing a Child Sexual Abuse Crime Scene

February 26, 2009

In everycase of child sexual abuse, thereis a crime scene that needs to beinspected and photographed.

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Volume 1, Issue 6: Assessing Children’s Statements for Investigative and Court Purposes

February 26, 2009

As empirical research continues to both support and challenge the credibility of children’s statements regarding alleged sexual victimization, child abuse investigators, legal professionals and judicial officers seek reliable methods of determining the trustworthiness of the reports children provide

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Volume 1, Issue 7: Creating a Constructive Practice: Family and Professional Partnership in High-risk Child Protection Case Conferences

February 26, 2009

Olmsted County Child & Family Services in Rochester, Minnesota, developed a family case conferencing approach in the juvenile court system involving children determined to be a thigh risk of maltreatment

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Volume 1, Issue 9: The Investigative Windows of Opportunity: The Vital Link to Corroboration in Child Sexual Abuse Cases

February 26, 2009

The single most important advantage a multidisciplinary team or lone investigator has in any type of child abuse investigation is the “Investigative Window of Opportunity(IWOP).”

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Volume 1, Issue 10: In the Shadow of Defense Counsel: Conducting Peer Review of Forensic Interview in an Age of Discovery

February 26, 2009

Simply put, whatever the MDT does or does not do as part of the forensic interviewing process, including peer review, will be attacked by defense counsel.

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Volume 1, Issue 11: We’re Just Going to Talk: Presenting Your Case in Opening Statement

February 24, 2009

The importance of the prosecutor’s opening statement in a case of child abuse cannot be overstated.At the close of voire dire, which can be a lengthy process,jurors are anxious to see what the case is really about and many jurors will develop a bias in favor of or opposed to the government’s case based on the prosecutor’s opening statement. Although an opening statement is not an argument for finding a defendant guilty, it can be equally persuasive

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Volume 2, Issue 1: Finding Equilibrium:Greene vs. Camreta

February 24, 2009

The importance of the prosecutor’s opening statement in a case of child abuse cannot be overstated

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Volume 1, Issue 1: Using the Forfeiture by Wrongdoing Confrontation Clause Exception in Child and Domestic Abuse after Giles v. California

February 26, 2008

In Giles v.California,2008 U.S. Lexis 5264, 1 (U. S. June 25, 2008), the United States Supreme Court, in a deeply fractured opinion, held that the forfeiture by wrongdoing exception to confrontation could only be used to admit testimonial out-of-court statements when the prosecutor could show the defendant acted intentionally with the purpose of causing the witness to be unavailable to testify at trial.

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Volume 1, Issue 2: A Children’s Courtroom Bill of Rights: Seven Pre-Trial Motions Prosecutors Should Routinely File in Cases of Child Maltreatment

February 26, 2008

Testifying in court is often stressful for children. Numerous studies document that children have very little, if any, understanding of legal processes

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Volume 1, Issue 3: Testifying in Court as a Forensic Interviewer: Defending an Investigative Interview from the Witness Stand

February 26, 2008

The field of forensic interviewing is a relatively new profession.The concept of a “forensic interview” was necessitated by high profile child sexual abuse cases from the 1980’s

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Volume 1, Issue 8: Electronic Recordings of Investigative Child Abuse Interviews

February 26, 2008

Interviews of alleged child abuse victims and witnesses are often the primary source of information on possible criminal activities

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