Assistant Criminal District Attorney Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney's office
It can be difficult to corroborate an outcry due to delay, lack of details, or a troublesome victim. In these cases, there may be no more evidence than the child's statement alone. What do you do with a case like that? Should you even bother to file it? Indict it? Prosecute it? The answer lies in what you do next. This session will focus on where to find evidence in child sexual abuse cases. Digging deep can help your case go from rejection to success!
Learning Objectives:
Understand that a jury can find a person guilty only on the word of a child
Learn to look for corroboration outside of the sexual abuse itself
Develop a sense of what can constitute evidence in a child sexual abuse case
