There is some difficulty in dealing with allegations of sexual assault involving a child. Things to take into consideration when preparing a case for trial would be the reliability of the witnesses, the condition of the accused as well as the victim, and the approach in trying to defend oneself against sexual abuse allegations. Since in this specific case we are dealing with sexual assault on a minor, who is easily persuaded even for the most insignificant reward, there is a possibility that the minor was groomed by the prosecution to lie in court. Furthermore, the minor could be induced by the parental figure to accuse the accused in order to get rid of him, or even just to profit from the accused. When dealing with such a case, the following measures should be taken: refute the prosecution's statements and make it appear that the witness is unreliable by destroying his testimony. As long as you approach the case with caution, it becomes quite easy to get an acquittal for the party in question. There is an alarming increase in the rate of false allegations of child sexual abuse, which in turn increases the ease of trial preparation. prosecution witnesses. The minor may be offered any primary or secondary reinforcer in exchange for a few words spoken in court, conditioning him to say things that will please the prosecution in order to receive even more candy. Ultimately, such a method of reinforcement leads to a lying witness who does not recognize the harm he is doing to himself if the lie is discovered; they have no conditioning to the aversive stimuli of their errors. A popular hypothesis as to why the prosecution prepares its witnesses to lie in court is because the... middle of the paper... skills of the witness. The witness may state things in exchange for rewards such as candy or praise from the crown, but he or she may also have a valid memory of the event. If the defense manages to break the memory by contacting an expert psychologist and having him declare the limit of the minor's memory, the case becomes much easier to win; If a child can only remember a certain number of things, regardless of whether the memory is emotional or not, how can you be sure that what the child says is true? The psychologist might discuss memory suppression, amnesia, or distortion and shift the jury's favor to the defendant. Even though the abuse may have actually occurred, if key testimony is false, the rest of the witness statements will become unreliable in the eyes of the jury, which is how the defense may choose to approach a sexual abuse case involving a minor..