What to do if discovering child sex abuse or molestation, how child molesters operate and how to talk to kids about sex safety and more were all covered in a recent workshop training session in Washington. WAMW continues a series of stories today on that workshop.
The Southwest Indiana Child Advocacy Center Coalition presented the Protecting Our Children Workshop to about 60 attendees at the Washington Free Methodist Church last week.
One of the speakers was Huntingburg Police Detective Tyler Stivers. He works sex crime cases in his city. He says one of his goals is to help those who might be called to jury duty in a child molestation case…
It was pointed out that physical evidence is rare in molestation cases so courts rely on testimony from suspects, victims, and expert witnesses. As Stivers said false reports are also rare accounting for less than 5% of all incidents. Most of those are made by adults in child custody disputes or adolescents. One case worker at the workshop said that out of 462 cases they had only worked 1 false report, and that was a teenager lying about consensual sex with another teen.
We will have more on this topic tomorrow on WAMW News on air and online.
