David Corwin

David L. Corwin is a board-certified psychiatrist, child and adolescent psychiatrist, and forensic psychiatrist. Corwin has done extensive work into the long-term impact of child violence and abuse on health, and has promoted family support and treatment programs. Corwin has worked as a consultant, a lecturer, a trainer, and an evaluator of suspected or known child sexual abuse cases throughout many countries, as well as serving as an expert witness of child sexual abuse cases.

Biography

Education Corwin received a B.S degree at the University of Michigan, followed by receiving an M.D. at the Michigan State College of Human Medicine. APSAC regularly publishes the newsletter APSAC Advisor and the journal Child Maltreatment which inform professionals in a range of disciplines about the latest policies, research findings, and up to date information on child maltreatment. which is an interprofessional international membership society that promotes research and education about the health effects of violence and abuse.

The Jane Doe case

In 1997 Corwin published an article in the journal Child Maltreatment about "Jane Doe"; a young girl who in 1984 along with her parents were referred to Corwin for a court-appointed forensic evaluation, as mutually agreed by all parties involved in family court litigation regarding custody and visitation, after she disclosed that she had been sexually abused by her mother after the parents separated. Corwin videotaped his interviews with Jane, then five and six years old, the third and last interview of which a verbatim transcript, history, and discussion of the case are documented in the 1997 publication. Ten years after the court-appointed and video recorded evaluation, Jane was contacted again by Corwin to reaffirm her assent for his use of the earlier video recorded interview for professional education and she requested to view her forensic evaluation interviews to help her remember what she had told Corwin, since she could not remember the experiences she earlier described. follow Corwin's 1997 article, Jane Doe, who then revealed herself as Nicole Taus, sued Loftus and lengthy litigation took place.