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IN RE AMBER B.

Docket No. A035298.

191 Cal.App.3d 682 (1987)

236 Cal. Rptr. 623

In re AMBER B. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. SOLANO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RON B., Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Five.

April 29, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Linda F. Robertson for Defendant and Appellant.

Charles O. Lamoree, County Counsel, Thomas H. Gordinier, Assistant County Counsel, and Vicki J. Sieber, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

KING, J.

In this case we hold that the psychological technique of detecting child sexual abuse by observing the child's behavior with anatomically correct dolls and analyzing the child's reports of abuse constitutes a new scientific method of proof, and therefore is admissible in court only upon a showing that the technique has been generally accepted as reliable in the scientific community in which it was developed.

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