Readers, Just a quick note to thank you for your comments. I haven't responded yet because our family was out of state, taking our son to visit the last college on his list, before making his choice by today's deadline. And I found that trying to work on a laptop and riding in a car just wasn't working too well. I'm back home now & will be writing up Part II. Hopefully, I'll have it posted at some point today.
I would like to make a couple things clear though. It appears, from reading your comments, as well as the emails sent to me, that some readers feel I think that Tonya Craft is guilty. I will state what I've communicated to others in private: I haven't read anything yet which convinces me of either the guilt or innocence of Tonya Craft.
The major points of my post had nothing to do with the question of guilt or innocence. If people disagree with how the prosecution, or the defense, is handling things, and want to express their viewpoint, I think that's great. That's what this country is all about.
What I do strongly object to, however, is how it's being done. Smearing and character assassination is wrong, whether it's being done to the innocently accused, like the Lacrosse players, or to professionals on the stand, just doing their job. Wrong is wrong, no matter how you look at it.
My second point was to give the general public a little view of what actually goes on behind the scenes, in preparing professionals, who are required to testify. We never, or shouldn't, at least, walk into a courtroon unprepared for questions from the defense. Our job, as forensic nurses, is to provide compassionate care for our patients and to collect evidence. Yet, that in no way, means that we are "Victims Advocates." We are professionals who are required to maintain our objectivity and we take our jobs seriously. I plan to show more of that in later postings under "Preparing For Trial."
The purpose of my next several posts is to educate the general public and provide accurate information for on child sexual abuse and investigation. I don't intend to get involved in any questions of prosecutorial abuse, as I'm a forensics nurse and prefer to stick to my area of expertise, and the general purpose of this blog: Give the public unbiased, accurate information and they can draw their own conclusions.
I would like to make a couple things clear though. It appears, from reading your comments, as well as the emails sent to me, that some readers feel I think that Tonya Craft is guilty. I will state what I've communicated to others in private: I haven't read anything yet which convinces me of either the guilt or innocence of Tonya Craft.
The major points of my post had nothing to do with the question of guilt or innocence. If people disagree with how the prosecution, or the defense, is handling things, and want to express their viewpoint, I think that's great. That's what this country is all about.
What I do strongly object to, however, is how it's being done. Smearing and character assassination is wrong, whether it's being done to the innocently accused, like the Lacrosse players, or to professionals on the stand, just doing their job. Wrong is wrong, no matter how you look at it.
My second point was to give the general public a little view of what actually goes on behind the scenes, in preparing professionals, who are required to testify. We never, or shouldn't, at least, walk into a courtroon unprepared for questions from the defense. Our job, as forensic nurses, is to provide compassionate care for our patients and to collect evidence. Yet, that in no way, means that we are "Victims Advocates." We are professionals who are required to maintain our objectivity and we take our jobs seriously. I plan to show more of that in later postings under "Preparing For Trial."
The purpose of my next several posts is to educate the general public and provide accurate information for on child sexual abuse and investigation. I don't intend to get involved in any questions of prosecutorial abuse, as I'm a forensics nurse and prefer to stick to my area of expertise, and the general purpose of this blog: Give the public unbiased, accurate information and they can draw their own conclusions.
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