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Download full textCeci, Stephen J.; Bruck, Maggie – Social Policy Report, 1993
This report provides an overview of the research on the testimony of young children in cases of sexual abuse, focusing on preschoolers' presumed suggestibility and the role of researchers and mental health professionals as expert witnesses in such cases. It does so in light of the McMartin preschool case, in which seven defendants were acquitted,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Abuse, Court Litigation, Incidence
