PEDIATRICS Vol. 86 No. 3 September 1990, pp. 488-489
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Allegations of Sexual Abuse

Robert E. Fay MD, FAAP1

1 50 Lincoln Ave, Albany, New York 12205

As a pediatrician who is involved in evaluation of allegations of sexual abuse, I congratulate Dr Paradise1 and her co-workers for bringing this difficult problem (the question of false allegations) to the attention of pediatricians. However, although they reported the significant numbers of incorrect allegations correctly, the authors still left me uncomfortable. Fears expressed that reports of incorrect allegations "could be harmful" if they "wrongly biased" practitioners were not balanced, as they should have been, with the equally valid and legitimate fear that reports of correct allegations might bias practitioners that all or almost all of these allegations in divorce/custody disputes are true.