Study: Supreme Court decision complicates prosecuting child abusers

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Nearly 42 percent of the prosecutors who participated in a national online survey reported that the US Supreme Court's 2004 decision in Crawford v. Washington increased the need for abuse victims to testify in court and decreased their prosecutions of child abuse cases either 'greatly' or 'somewhat.' University of Illinois social work senior research specialist Theodore P. Cross and independent child abuse research Debra Whitcomb co-wrote the paper.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news