Guest Blog: Social Workers Have a Role in Curbing Sexual Grooming in Schools

Guest Blog By Daniel Pollack & Robert Reiser The headlines tell the explicit stories of sexual grooming in schools: “How Teachers ‘Groom’ Students for Sexual Abuse” (Heldiz, 2019) “School Districts That Don’t Have Policies on Teacher-Student Boundaries Are Paying the Price” (Jimenez, 2019) “A Teacher’s Pet or a Victim of Sexual Abuse?”(McKibbin, 2018) A 2004 Read More…

Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome Expert Witness Testimony Went Too Far, Defendant Awarded New Trial

I rarely discuss out of state appellate decisions, unless the issues involved could be influential in the State of Washington. An appellate case out of California, People v. Cody Julian, is a recent example. It involves an area of psychology called Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome. What is Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome? Child Sexual Read More…

Court Finds Texts to Pimp Are Not Confidential

Purchasing sex via internet ads rarely turns out the way customers intend.  Often, the experiences have serious legal consequences. In the 2018 case of Mr. Hopper, he was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor.  His criminal case hinged on text messages found on the phone of an underage prostitute’s pimp. Hopper searched “Backpage.com” (which Read More…