In her concluding remarks, the author comments on certain troubling details of the sexual allegations in the Oude Pekela case not mentioned by the other responders and offers alternate explanations for some of these details. The therapeutic community needs greater sophistication about victim and perpetrator patterns in order to insure that a scientific approach will be applied to solving cases where child sexual abuse has been alleged.
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