The attached document , illustrates the mentality of Loudoun County Child Protective Services.  The document  provides guidance on how to conduct an interview with the “alleged offender”. As you can read, the purpose of the interview is to obtain a confession. The assumption is that abuse has already occurred. It is vitally important that you notify your attorney of all threats made to you by the detective and the social worker.  It also critical that you get all tapes of your interview. Your interview will be taped whether it be audio or visual, it will be taped.

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Sandra Glenney and her willingness to use therapists from the ISSTD is even more disturbing when you fully grasp the beliefs of that organization. A current member and former president , Dr. Colin Ross is a controversial figure to say the least. Dr. Colin testified in the case of Billy Joe Harris for the defense, Dr. Ross attempted to testify that Mr. Harris committed a rape while under a different personality as he allegedly  suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder. The cross examination of Dr. Ross begins n page 57 of the following transcript. 

It is  a good transcript to study to gt a feel of how to question a hired gun mental health professional.

From the excellent documentary Innocence Lost , the below article discusses the issue with repeated questioning of a child.  I recommend paying close attention to the mother’s questioning of the child prior to the child speaking with a therapist. It illustrates how children change their mind after repeated questioning.  A child will attempt to satisfy the adults when questioned repeatedly.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/readings/repeated.html

In the Little Rascals case, there are no electronic recordings of the initial interviews with the children. On the basis of the available evidence, it seems that many children denied during initial interviews that anything sexual had happened. Some of the children talked about hitting or spanking in the day-care center, but they mainly made these claims about other children (in the next chapter, on stereotype induction, we will address these reports of hitting in more detail). The only child who made any statements that may have been indicative of abuse was Carl P. But this was not the first time that Carl had been questioned. His mother had been questioning him since at least the beginning of December; initially, he had denied any wrongdoing at the center, although he later said that Mr. Bob had played “doctor” with some of his friends, but not with him

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