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An expert hired by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) argued in court that a 9-year-old girl seeking damages after she was sexually assaulted would be protected from emotional stress by her low IQ.
Court documents obtained by KPCC investigative producer Karen Foshay detailed forensic psychologist Dr. Stan Katzs 2013 testimony in a trial to determine how much in damages the 9-year-old girl would receive after she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a boy at one of the districts schools.*
Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) and Misty Kingma (http://twitter.com/mistykingma) of The Young Turks discuss.
*Read more from here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/los-angeles-school-district-therapist-low-iq-girls-suffer-less-trauma-from-sex-assault/
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Friend of mine considered putting her daughter in one. When they drove up a bunch of men surrounded the car. She talked to the administrator and they told her, "You won't have to worry,we
will put your daughter on birth control pills."
The genders are not segregated.
The mother stormed out angrily refusing to subject her daughter to that kind of daily trauma.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)Beyond belief!!!!
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)Lets get this straight this is GUY who may have children--yes ---no.
Has a degree as a psychologist, and if one of his children has a mentally disadvantaged and they got raped what would he say---duh?
Then to top it all off we have a school district that has members with children and they hire this GUY, time for a election---now
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... to note how many supposed "experts" who make a tidy living from testifying in trials are, in fact, third-string con artists whom any competent psychologist would immediately brand as "sociopaths." They are devoid of conscience and consumed by pathological selfishness. They see nothing wrong with making outrageous statements like Katz did, as long as they get paid for it. To such people, ethics are something they scrape off the soles of their shoes.