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This declaration concerns potential forensic review of Child Advocacy Center interviews in a military court-martial matter. It sets out the psychologist’s background and experience with child sexual abuse testimony and interview review, and includes supporting materials about training in forensic child interviewing.
False allegations of child abuse are considered through a compilation of studies and clinical literature. The material reviews reported frequency estimates and exonerations, then presents a clinical typology covering allegations in custody disputes, psychological disturbance, conscious manipulation, and suggestive or other iatrogenic influences.
This article challenges the use of behavioral signs or proposed “syndromes” as proof that child sexual abuse occurred or did not occur. It reviews studies on children’s sexualized behaviors and abuse disclosure, emphasizing that such behaviors have varied causes and that neither their presence nor absence alone establishes whether abuse took place.
