When children witness or experience criminal events, the first people they go to are generally parents. Typically, no one else is privy to these conversations, and consequently little is known about their specific content. Research has shown that children can be quite accurate witnesses at times. However, they can also incorporate information from misleading and suggestive questions into their ...

499 August 2013, Vol. 103, No. 8 SAMJ Child sexual abuse exacerbated by inadequate services To the Editor: The editorial entitled ‘Rape in South Africa − a call to action’ implores me to respond. The author aptly describes the landscape of sexual violence as it intersects with medicine and the limitations in the response. Child sexual abuse (CSA) is included in this lament, and on this I wish t...