Court Cases

Memorandum/article regarding the legal reasons why evidence of penile plethysmography, other tests and "not a pedophile" opinion testimony of John M. W. Bradford, M.D. of Ottawa, Canada, and others is inadmissible in a civil case. The memorandum summarizes the Daubert ruling, extensively quotes to the literature on the subject of sexual behavior assessment and collects the cases which di...

FRONTLINE examines child sexual abuse and how, during the 1980s, mounting fears of child sexual abuse in day care centers led to a new prosecutorial crusade against child molesters in South Florida. This program recounts how Miami prosecutors developed a method for winning child molestation convictions, led by then-state prosecuting attorney Janet Reno. It was a method that would be copied ...