Sentences with phrase «accompany a child witness»

No dog in the history of New York courts had been allowed to accompany a child witness to the stand to provide comfort during testimony.

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It would be more realistic if we would practice our «faith» by getting out of the «holy temple» and stoping crimes, injustice, death, famine, hunger, child molestation, etc, that we are all witness to but because there is no promise for individual reward of a eternal paradise accompanied with the beautiful scenery with candles and dim lights with magnificent ceilings and mosaics, we turn away from the real cruelty of our world and our specie.

One persuasive theory proposed by economist Richard Easterlin is that the postwar period witnessed a combination of two basic forces which encouraged optimism and relaxed earlier constraints on marriage and having children: an unprecedented demand for goods and services otherwise known as the postwar economic boom; and an accompanying shortage of labor.

Court therapy dogs are highly trained animals and remain quiet and unobtrusive when accompanying a child on the witness stand, often so much so that a jury is not even aware the dog is present in the courtroom.

The findings that children and adolescents accompanied by family members are less distressed than those who arrive accompanied by relatives corroborate the findings of Kinzie et al. (1986; 1989) who demonstrated that it was neither the amount nor type of trauma witnessed, nor the child's age or gender that predicted PTSD in Cambodian refugees.