Denver Divorce Attorney
Q.I have yet failed to come across the subject of "False allegations of sexual abuse in divorce and seperation". I have been through this living hell for almost 1 1/2 years now. If you should find yourself in similiar circumstances or on the brink of marital breakup, with children involved drop me a line. Any comments on this issue ???
A.False allegations ruin lives False allegations levied during divorce or custody battles reside in a dark, musty and controversial corner of family law. Without exception, they elicit disdain from domestic law experts. Steven N. Peskind, a suburban Chicago divorce attorney who handles cases in DuPage and Kane counties, said the reason is simple: An allegation alone - regardless of veracity - holds incredible destructive power. "It's the nuclear bomb of family law," Peskind said. "(Sexual abuse)accusations, even false ones, can literally destroy people's lives. It's not a 'He'll get over it' sort of thing." The reason they hinge their opinions on anecdotal evidence is because very few researchers have bothered to seek out how often sexual abuse allegations are raised in divorce and custody situations, or how many times those allegations turn out to be false. The one research project on the issue that experts cite most often was conducted 13 years ago by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in Denver. After studying 9,000 contested custody cases, the organization flagged 169 - about 2 percent - in which one parent levied a sexual abuse allegations during the proceedings. Of those, the study found, about half were substantiated. The rest were classified as either false or unsubstantiated. Without other solid research, the issue swirls in controversial stories and conjecture indicating false allegations are much more frequent or much less frequent than the Denver study suggests. "It's a mess," said Frank Sassetti, a psychologist who does custody evaluations for Cook County family court. "It's not as clean cut as everybody would like." "In divorce, your world gets turned upside down," Sassetti said. "You have lawyers, judges, friends, all with their own agendas, all weighing in with advice. Then, maybe, you see you're losing ground with your children, and you become very, very scared. "Then you see something, something that may be a normal thing for a child, natural sexual exploration, and you're scared, and you start to see things that just aren't there."
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