Day One

Physical and Neglect: Child Abuse Injury Reconstruction Techniques

Identifying the evidence of physical child abuse can often be difficult even for the seasoned investigator. For 2008, John E. Reid & Associates and Robert Hugh Farley present an intensive, state of the art training seminar that focuses on non-accidental injuries to children. The seminar emphasizes the specific techniques that can be used by the investigator in the assessment, investigation and reconstruction of cases involving soft tissue injuries such as bruises, lacerations and burns. In addition, the various weapons utilized by the offender in child abuse situations will also be identified and discussed. The seminar will also address the circumstances and evaluation of deprived and neglected children. Lastly, the curriculum offers case illustrations that encourage hands on participation by the student.

Specific topics addressed at the seminar:

Abusive caretaker assessment
The role of juvenile court vs. criminal court
Soft tissue injury assessment
Neglect child abuse injury reconstruction
Physical child abuse dynamics
The role of the physician, the emergency room and the paramedic
Interview themes for the abusive and the non-abusive caretaker
Child abuse weapon identification
Bruise and Wound configurations
Abuse injury comparison studies
Identification and the recovery of physical evidence
Open and closed soft tissue injury reconstruction
Soft tissue injuries from hands, belts and cords
Reconstructing wet and dry burns
Child abuse homicide and death investigations

Day Two

Investigating Computer Facilitated Crimes against Children

The Internet has become the new schoolyard for child molesters seeking girls or boys to victimize. For 2008, John E. Reid & Associates and Robert Hugh Farley present an investigative Ð technology based training seminar that illustrates the growing problem of sexual predators that target children via the Internet and cell phones. The seminar will identify and then discuss the methodologies and seduction techniques employed by the child molester in the various chat rooms, social networking sites and on the World Wide Web. Additionally, the seminar examines the topics of child erotica, child pornography, and their use by the child molester. Lastly, the seminar presents interview and interrogation techniques that can be used specifically in child exploitation investigations involving the online predator or the preferential child molester.

Specific topics addressed at the seminar:

Historical background of child sexual exploitation.
The evolution of the online child exploitation problem that began in 1997 thru today.
The progression of child pornography from Polaroid photos, to camcorders, to digital cameras, and beyond.
The use of the computer, cell phone text messaging and the Internet in child sexual exploitation.
Web-cams, chat rooms, IM's, file severs, and the Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
Web page dangers for children involving myspace, youtube, facebook, livejournal, xanga and the online gaming sites.
Executing child molester search warrants and utilizing "online" consent to search forms.
Awareness of fundamental computer hardware, technology and terminology.
The situational child molester, the preferential child molester and the online child sexual predator.
Interviewing techniques and questions used specifically for the "compliant" online child abuse victim
The child molester's online and cell phone seduction / grooming techniques.
Child molester collections: child pornography, trophies, and child erotica.
Illustrations of law enforcement's reactive and proactive - undercover response to the online problem
Interrogation techniques and themes used specifically in online child exploitation investigations
Combating classic and evolving child predator defenses and testifying in online child exploitation prosecutions.

The Instructor

The two day training seminar is taught by Robert Hugh Farley MS, a 30-year veteran of the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department in Chicago, Illinois, presents this eye-opening seminar. As a highly decorated detective, unit commander and deputy United States Marshal, Detective Farley has had over 28 years experience conducting and supervising all aspects of child abuse investigations--from sexual abuse to child homicide.

In 1997, Detective Farley created the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department Child Exploitation Unit in order to combat the online Internet solicitation and sexual abuse of children. At that time, no other law enforcement agency in the United States (or the world) had a unit working these specific types of crimes. The Cook County Sheriff's Police Child Exploitation Unit in Chicago became and remains an international law enforcement model, which boasts a 100 percent court conviction rate.

As an internationally recognized expert, consultant, author and instructor in child abuse investigation techniques, Detective Farley has conducted training seminars for tens of thousands of police officers, attorneys, teachers, social workers and other professionals. He has conducted hundreds of training seminars on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 49 of the 50 states. As an international consultant for INTERPOL he has also conducted training seminars in 22 different countries around the world.

Each student will receive a Certificate of Course Completion, a training manual and a set of sample forms specifically designed for computer facilitated investigations that include: computer related consent to search forms and computer related evidence seizure lists.

Course Fee:
$400 1-2 attendees
$350 3 or more
$300 RPGA or Institute discount

If you would like to sponsor this seminar for your department, click here or call Debbie Plese at 1-888-255-1635.