As an example, “Bette Bottoms’ “Barbie Doll” experiment and Steve Ceci’s broken toy experiment--found that children would lie to protect their parent or other loved one, suppressing personally observed information that would implicate the adult from feared punishment or “trouble” (Front line 7). If a child is scared to tell what happened in fear, how can we believe what they say? Their opinions on the subject may change due to what their parents or caretaker tells them. Every child’s emotions are different, some can handle pressure, while others crumble under it. An example that shows this is that some kids cannot take the stand due to their emotions. “Reported case decisions are filled with examples of children who are so emotionally overwhelmed that they become paralyzed in tears on the witness stand” (Front line 7). Children have gre

In the mean time, “It requires that child abuse and sexual assault cases be given priority and brought to trial as quickly as possible” (State of Michigan 7). If these cases are done as quickly as some people want them to be done, and not handled properly many things can go wrong. They want to punish anyone because they think their child is being hurt and they do not think their kid would lie. “A kind of mob mentality has encouraged us to trample the usually cautious, slow processes of justice in order to win quick verdicts--and at a price” (Front line 1). We may be sending innocent people to jail for a crime they did not commit; or we may be lessening a criminals sentence. “After years of recrimination, fury, and fear, the courts overturned convictions and state prosecutors ended up offering plea bargains or dropping charges altogether” (Front line 2). Rushing cases, telling kids what to say, plea bargains, overturned cases, and overlooking the kids lying are many of the things the justice system is doing wrong. When judges say its okay that’s when the children should be able to testify. “The judge and jury do not take an all or nothing approach. On the contrary, they very often decide that, if the child says he or she was abused in a hot air balloon, they disbelieve the hot air balloon and believe the abuse, they disbelieve the sharks, but again believe the abuse. They disbelieve the killing of children but believe that the childre

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