How to Ensure Children’s Credibility of Testimony in Sexual Abuse Cases

作     者：Wei-Hsin Chang 

作者机构：School of LawHenan University of Science and TechnologyLuoyangHenan 471023China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine》 (法庭科学与法医学杂志（英文）)

年 卷 期：2017年第3卷第3期

页      面：152-160页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Child victims consensual sex sexual abuse testimony hearsay exceptions 

摘      要：There were several sexual abuse cases in Taiwan where the defendants having committed child rapes either received light punishment or held not *** led to the White Rose Movement in 2010,whereby the court decisions were criticized ruthlessly by *** those problematic court decisions with absurd reasoning,we have suspected that the legislative purpose of statutory rape and that of forcible rape applied to children and adults separately were mistakenly *** resulted in the consent of intercourse becoming a legal constituent requirement taken into consideration in child rape ***,a child’s consent on sex is invalid in the *** the child’s testimony was thought less creditable by some psychologists,Taiwan Residents courts have admitted the reports of defendant’s polygraph and child victim’s hymen tests to be presented in court to ensure the child’s *** paper,thus,based on Taiwan’s judicial experience,aims to explore the child’s credibility of testimony from legal and forensic linguistic aspects and to present an assessing method for reference.