In Karen's case, the father had taken a lie detector test which resulted in what is referred to in legal circles as a "yellow screen", or inconclusive results. Lie detectors rely on stress measurement. Karen's ex-husband is a pilot and is trained to control stress in normally stressful situations.
Family courts are the initial courts to hear child abuse charges. These courts do not operate on normal rules of self incrimination. DNA testing is regularly ordered to prove or disprove paternity, though in criminal courts, DNA must be collected either with the permission of the subject or serendipitously. If these courts can use rules that are counter to burden of proof involving one are of investigation, they should not be allowed to reject technology that can be used to protect children from court trauma or sexual abuse. The only reason not to employ these technologies is the money that can be made off these cases.
Further, the only reason to seal the record of an identified abuser is to insure future earnings. Abusers cannot control their acts of abuse and must repeat these acts, either on a previous victim or on a new, unsuspecting one.
The only way to end the control of the courts by the American Mafia is to end the control they have over the use of technology. The cost of these continuing cases in the courts is enormous to taxpayers, but the cost to victims can never be measured.
[i] U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect. (1995). A nation's shame: Fatal child abuse and neglect in the United States: Fifth report. Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, p. 253.
[ii] Julia Whealin, Ph.D. (2007-05-22). "Child Sexual Abuse". National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, US Department of Veterans Affairs. http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/pages/child-sexual-abuse.asp.
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