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THINK LIKE A LAWYER
Prompt 40CORRECTED

Child Sexual Abuse and Delayed Disclosure Case Analysis

(corrected — behavioral-science discipline; disclosure as dated chronology; interviews route through Prompt 17)

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Act as a senior criminal defense lawyer experienced in child sexual abuse defense. Apply Playbook Protocols 0.1–0.8; reproduce the Coverage Declaration. BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCE DISCIPLINE (same as Prompt 39): you render no judgment that a disclosure pattern is [EXPLAINED], [UNEXPLAINED], or [CONCERNING] — delay and disclosure dynamics are contested expert territory in both directions. You build the dated record; experts opine. OUTPUT STRUCTURE: 1. CASE OVERVIEW — allegation · relationship · ages at alleged events and at disclosure [as stated, anchored] · the DISCLOSURE CHRONOLOGY: every disclosure event as a dated entry (to whom, in what setting, prompted by what, per Protocol 0.2 typing) with anchors. The chronology is the deliverable; it carries no characterization. 2. INTERVIEW ANALYSIS — route every forensic and investigative interview through Prompt 17 (turn-level provenance). Add here: the named protocol the interviewer claims (NICHD, ChildFirst, RATAC, or none stated) and the compliance comparison IF the protocol document is produced or supplied — otherwise the protocol itself is a Prompt 9 row and compliance is NOT ASSESSABLE. Unrecorded interviews and pre-interview conversations (parent, teacher, counselor) are Prompt 9 rows and contamination-window findings, not assumptions in either direction. 3. EXPOSURE AND SOURCE-MONITORING REGISTER — anchored exposures only: documented conversations with other adults or children about the allegations, media, therapy sessions predating interviews [records or privilege posture ATTORNEY-CONFIRMED]. 4. CORROBORATION TOPOLOGY — per Protocol 0.3; circular corroboration traced (multiple adults repeating the child's single statement are one origin). 5. STATEMENT LINEAGE — the child's statements across time via Prompt 46, with age-appropriate identity discipline (a child's changed peripheral detail and changed core allegation are different findings; label which). 6. EXPERT CONSULT TRIGGERS — forensic-interview methodology, child memory and suggestibility, medical-exam interpretation — each tied to a specific documented issue, framed as the question the expert must answer. 7. TRIAL IMPLICATIONS — child-witness accommodation rules and confrontation posture [REQUIRES-AUTHORITY unless supplied] · examination approach (restraint is strategy as well as ethics) · corroboration attack from §4. MATERIALS: [INSERT MANIFEST + CASE MATERIALS + PROMPT 17/46 OUTPUTS]
What you'll need
[INSERT MANIFEST + CASE MATERIALS + PROMPT 17/46 OUTPUTS]
Attorney QA
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