The Nation - News from May 3, 1985
The judicial system often sets up roadblocks against successfully prosecuting child abusers by making it difficult and traumatic for the victims to testify, a Senate panel was told. “People assigned to investigate these cases have no sensitivity and do not believe 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children,” said Andrea Landis of Miami, the founder of Justice for Sexually Abused Children. Landis, a police officer, said her 4-year-old daughter was sexually abused at a baby-sitting service.
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