Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Rape charges dropped against father West Bloomfield

Rape charges dropped against father West Bloomfield

The case was controversial from its beginning because the 15-year-old girl, who cannot speak, made the claims through facilitated communication, a widely discredited method of communication in which a teaching aide helps such students type words into a keyboard. Experts testified that scientific evaluations of the method have proven that the teaching aide, consciously or unconsciously, authors the messages.

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