Johnene Stebbins
Oct 2 - 3, 2023 | Santa Clara, CA | $425.00
REGISTER COURSEMulti-Disciplinary Child Interviews are crucial in child sexual abuse investigations. Similar to certified forensic interviewer training, this course is an introductory course designed to understand the evolution of child interviewing protocols and best practices.
The course provides guidance on the best interviewing techniques, common pitfalls and how to get the most detail out of interviewing witnesses and victims while minimizing the victim’s trauma after the abuse. The target audience for this course range from patrol officers who are the first point of contact for abuse victims, to social workers and investigators who are doing more in-depth investigations. Techniques taught in this course will help with all victim interviews, as the techniques have been shown to increase the quality and quantity of the details victims provide. We will also cover how the evidence you collect gets presented to the jury and what additional evidence/investigation can be done to put forth the strongest case. Further, we will examine characteristics of our child molestation suspects and types of evidence that you can collect to help the jury understand how he fits into the profiles we know about child molesters. We will also review the elements of the sexual assault crimes and what evidence is needed to prove those elements. We will discuss additional evidence collection and techniques and how those are relayed to the jury to give you a better understanding of the value of that evidence and how it is presented, including the interview of the victim, locating and interviewing past victims for 1108 evidence, fresh complaint witnesses, DNA, SART exams, photographs, and pretext phone calls. Discussed, as well, will be an overview of the Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome to give you an idea of information to seek out in interviews and how that information is interpreted for the jury in connection to CSAAS evidence. And lastly, we will cover how your investigative techniques and qualifications are best presented to the jury.