“A child who is sexually abused by a parent may be the most vulnerable of all victims, and the legal system’s mechanisms for protecting children from intrafamily sexual abuse are inadequate.”

They were inadequate in 1991 and they are inadequate in 2024. An abstract of a 1991 article in Family Law Quarterly entitled “Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse in Custody Disputes: Getting to the Truth of the Matter” appears in the U.S. Department of Justice National Criminal Justice Reference Service. The annotated reference in NCJRS virtual … Continue reading “A child who is sexually abused by a parent may be the most vulnerable of all victims, and the legal system’s mechanisms for protecting children from intrafamily sexual abuse are inadequate.”