A detailed look at the issues, challenges, and pitfalls facing practitioners defending sex abuse allegations on their client's behalf.

From ACS child services and other similar administrative agencies through civil and criminal matters in our courthouses and beyond, the discussion will cover many topics, including jurisdiction, statute of limitations, mediation & arbitration, confusion in how these cases are charged and pled, appellate preservation, confronting expert witness testimony, collateral consequences to conviction, civil commitment pursuant to Article 10 of the mental hygiene law, and how they all inter-relate.