"Trauma-informed" investigations are a type of believe-the-victim method in which any inconsistencies in the "victim's" account are explained as being caused by the psychological after-effects of the assault.

And how do we know she was assaulted? Because she's a "victim," of course!

Trauma-informed is based more on junk science than on scientific fact -- see video. But like a cancer, trauma-informed approaches are spreading.

Today, the poignant account of a misguided "trauma-informed" investigation was published. Written by the mother of the accused man, she writes:

"The entire time, I kept asking myself, won’t someone just look at the evidence? Talk to the witnesses? But in the well-intentioned battle against sexual assault, facts become irrelevant, and truth never seems to matter."

The jury acquitted her son within one hour. But her son will never completely recover from the experience:

"Every time my son undergoes a background check it shows that he was acquitted of felony sexual assault, and he is judged guilty. Getting a good paying job is impossible. He will never get to live as an innocent person should. This is the result of a rush to believe, a lack of objective fact-finding, and the sheer bias with which my son was viewed. He did not break the law, his accuser did. And he will pay for it for the rest of his life."

Link: http://www.ifeminists.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.1451

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