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A false allegation of child sexual abuse is an accusation that a person committed one or more acts of child sexual abuse when in reality there was no perpetration of abuse by the accused person as alleged. Such accusations can be brought by the victim, or by another person on the alleged victim's behalf.
A rape kit or rape test kit is a package of items used by medical, police or other personnel for gathering and preserving physical evidence following an instance or allegation of sexual assault. The evidence collected from the victim can aid the criminal rape investigation and the prosecution of a suspected assailant.
Capturing the Friedmans (Dir. Andrew Jarecki) ―A 2003 HBO documentary about Arnold and Jesse Friedman, [41] who both pleaded guilty to child abuse, but claimed the charges were false and the guilty pleas coerced. A Map of the World (1994) ― A novel that was turned into a film (1999), about a school nurse falsely accused of molesting a student.
Incest between a child or adolescent and a related adult is known as child incestuous abuse, [91] and has been identified as the most widespread form of child sexual abuse with a highly significant capacity to damage the young person. [13]
Abel states in his book that a therapist can use the test as a tool to determine if a child is attracted to other children. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled in 2004 that the Abel Assessment is a tool that is used only as treatment, and that it cannot detect whether a person has sexually abused children. Independent studies of the ...
Emotional abuse, like other kinds of abuse, is about control. Like physical abuse, emotional abuse is about gaining power over another person, be it a partner or other family member.
In 1979, Lenore E. Walker proposed the concept of battered woman syndrome (BWS). [1] She described it as consisting "of the pattern of the signs and symptoms that have been found to occur after a woman has been physically, sexually, and/or psychologically abused in an intimate relationship, when the partner (usually, but not always a man) exerted power and control over the woman to coerce her ...
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