A "one size fits all" approach to
cross-examining child sex abuse victims can make their evidence seem
unreliable in criminal trials, an inquiry has been told.
The
director of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, Terese Henning, told
the sex abuse royal commission on Wednesday legal requirements of the
rules of evidence could impose barriers for child witnesses, including
those with disabilities, and mean they are stereotyped as unreliable.https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31166553/nsw-prosecutor-returns-to-abuse-inquiry/