Psychological Assessment of Alleged Child Sexual Abuse Victims

My second appointment with _____ was on 9-17-00. She talked about her recent birthday. She completed projective drawings during this appointment. During her free drawing, she took a long time and interacted with me frequently. This drawing was a rainbow. When I asked her to draw a house, she asked me if she could draw a cloud with her brother who died. She included this in her picture, and told me he was in his 20's and died from smoking. ______ talked about______, her counselor. She did not know why she sees her, but said it is fun.

The house and tree _____ drew were both from her current environment, indicating good attachment to her current family. Even more so, she drew (foster mother) for her "person" drawing. She said ________ was trying to find her in the woods. Her nurturing needs are evident, and she seeks this from her current mother. For her drawing of her family, she drew herself, then ________and ____(current parents). She said they were in the water at a water park. The picture was very positive in emotional tone.

My next appointment with ____ was on 9-24-00. During this appointment, I asked ____to draw the worst thing that had happened to her. She immediately said that her brother died. However, her picture was of her birth mom, and she said she lived on the streets with this mom. She drew her mother smoking, and said they were living on the street and in the same room in a hotel. _____ then talked about how she is not "_______" anymore, she is "______", because her parents signed adoption papers. I asked _____to draw the best thing that had happened to her. She drew herself, her current dad and mom, and said the best thing was them adopting her. She said she has called them "mom" and "dad" since she came, but she used to call them "aunt" and "uncle".

I showed ____forensic drawings of an elementary school aged child, front and back views (female). I asked her to label all body parts, which she did. However, she did not want to label the breasts or genitals, and covered the vaginal area with her hand. She finally labeled the breasts as "nipples" and the vagina and buttocks as "private". I then asked _____to color in any part that had ever been touched when she did not want it to be touched. She immediately said "none".

She then colored in the vaginal area, and said ______ touched it, but did not know what he touched it with, but she thought it was his hand. She said this happened in Kansas, in a hotel. She said they had the bed with blankets and she slept on the floor on a mattress. She said ______slept on the floor without anything. She said ______was______ 's boyfriend, and ______ was in the hotel room when this happened, but she was taking a shower. She said she had her clothes on and was sitting on the floor on her mattress. She said _______was with her but her mother never knew about it. _____ thought she was 5-years-old at the time. She said her other brother was not there; he was at a different house. _____ said she got moved away from ______when she was 6. She denied that either of her brothers ever touched her private part, and she also denied that her mother had done that. She said the only person who did that was her mother's boyfriend, and he is still her boyfriend.