When Knowing Comes by Kelly Green
Author:Kelly Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Safe Passage Press LLC
Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
Eighteen
EXPERT WITNESS
2022
TRIAL
Whoomp, there it is! Whoomp, there it is! Robbie suppressed his mirth over the new earworm spawned in response to the next witness, the expert hired by Ace to talk about child abuse stuff. Given how much the guy cost, the moment was big. Anyway, it should feel bigâthere it is! Ace had convinced Robbie they needed this guy for their case. The AAYA had their own expert psychologist who got paid to say Robbie was fine, really-fine. But first, it was Robbieâs turn for his expert psychologist to explain why Robbie wasnât fine, really-not-fine, why abuse distorted his normal childhood development and made Robbie the fuck-up he was. Whoomp.
The balding, middle-aged white man wore a tan suit with wire-rimmed glasses and sat straight, like he had a broomstick up his ass. He held his head high and pinched his nose while Ace questioned him. His tone had a casualness typical of the highly successful trying to act like, oh yeah, Stanford, blah blah, Harvard, blah blah, no big deal, except of course it is a big deal. Be impressed. Be very impressed. But the jury was rapt, so maybe the guy was worth the small fortune heâd charge.
Ace had wrapped up Dr. Schmidtâs extensive education and experience in the field, then followed up with his publications in such-and-such high-brow specialty periodical and blah blah blah. Robbie was astonished that the jury was captivated by this boredom-fest, but they were. Ace knew his stuff and clearly picked the right guy for the job. An hour into the testimony, Dr. Schmidt described the litany of materials he had reviewed in preparation. Mostly, they comprised legal briefs, medical reports, and the like. After he established the expertâs extensive background, Ace would begin questions about the doctorâs formalized opinion. Robbie braced himself for this next assault when the doc would rip deeper, exposing Robbieâs shame to the world. As if they havenât seen enough.
âDoctor Schmidt, is it your experience that children often misreport sexual contact with adults or later change their story?â Ace asked.
âObjection. Compound,â Vilipend interjected.
âIâll rephrase. Is it your experience that children frequently change their stories about sexual contact with adults?â
âYes,â the doctor answered. âChildren can react to trauma by shutting down, by trying to forget what happened. So, when a child is questioned near the time of the event, it is fairly typical they donât get all the details correct. Sometimes, after becoming an adult, a person will remember events more clearly than they did as a child.â
âThey forgetâ¦â Ace stopped mid-sentence, shook his head, and began again. âHow is that possâ¦â Again, Ace cut himself off. He looked down at his shoes and visibly exhaled while formulating his next attempt. Lifting his head to look straight at the expert, he said, âPlease explain how a child would not recall specific information soon after an incident, but could recall an incident in great detail several years later.â
âItâs possible that someone learned information over time from other sources and incorporated that into their own memory.
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