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[YEAR] 1997 [CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE LITIGATION] Indicators of child sexual abuse and their unreliability [AUTHOR] Terence Campbell PhD [SELECTION] 5442 [ABSTRACT] This article reviews the interrater agreement problems undermining the reliability of "indicator lists" purporting to identify sexually abused children. Typically, the definitional characteristics of these indicators are too vague and ill-defined and, as a result, they invite a wide range of subjective opinion. Questions for cross-examining expert witnesses who rely on these indicators are presented. This cross-examination procedure is also applied to Gardner s Sexual Abuse Legitimacy (SAL) scale, demonstrating that it cannot support expert testimony in a legal proceeding. [SOURCE] 
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