Child advocacy

After leaving the couple's house, the CPS worker called her supervisor and said that a safety plan wasn't needed.

John and Sadie were asked to bring LG to the Child Advocacy Center the following day to be evaluated by the child abuse team.

But by the next morning, the plan had changed.

John got a call from a CPS worker telling him that because he and his wife worked at the hospital, she was going to take LG to her appointment instead.

To establish in some manner the sexual conduct involving the child took place.

To do so, the state offered the Child Advocacy Center interview of the child.

wherein she makes no reference to any conduct that could be considered rape.

The state elected not to call the child as a witness to further explore any prohibited acts at trial.

The law defines sexual contact as the touching of an erogenous zone such as thigh, genitals, buttock, pubic regions, or breasts for the purpose of sexually arousing or gratifying either person.

To establish these counts, the state again relied heavily on text messages between the defendant and her co-defendant.

Unlike the rape count, however, the state was able to corroborate gross sexual imposition through the Child Advocacy Center interview of the child.

During that interview, the child stated she on each other's bodies.

as well as the surrounding hospitals.

We also will go to the Child Advocacy Center if a child has disclosed abuse.

We're there to support the family that's there, regardless of the outcome in the criminal justice system.

We also have our transitional shelter available to folks that are leaving abusive relationships, as well as a housing program where we support people.

And no, he's not in the room when I'm reading this.

Ida Quill wasn't in the room and I'm reading everything that leads up to the arrest and in in the allegations that were made well first of all i was taken aback as former law enforcement professional a person who's done a thousand cac child advocacy center interviews i probably have more people doing time in angola for raping babies than all the cops you ever met in your entire life i mean that's how i made my career but at the a certain percentage of the people are going to be innocent.

Now, as far as the polygraph guys, and I got full permission way back then from Mr. Mansell that I could talk about this, right? And so under Louisiana law, I can't, couldn't say anything if he didn't give me permission.

So the, uh, I'm reading the facts of the case, and the first thing that struck me, just like knocked me out of my chair, was how many times this baby had been interviewed, okay? And by the baby, I mean the alleged victim in the case.

did.

All right.

What you're supposed to do is immediately set up a child advocacy center interview.

Usually you get them set up the next day and that's where the child goes in and they are forensically interviewed by a trained professional.

Pomerantz had also been asked by the child advocacy team to make a referral to CPS, which he did.

That evening, John and Sadie got an initial visit from CPS, who reported that the bruises on the baby seemed, quote, "underwhelming." After leaving the couple's house, the CPS worker called her supervisor and said that a safety plan wasn't needed.

John and Sadie were asked to bring LG to the Child Advocacy Center the following day to be evaluated by the child abuse team.

But by the next morning, the plan had changed.

John got a call from a CPS worker telling him that because he and his wife worked at the hospital, she was going to take LG to her appointment instead.