Verifying Personal Accounts and Investigating Trauma Impact
Learn how to verify personal accounts and delve into the impact of trauma on memory, witnesses, and forensic evidence. Explore topics such as organized child abuse, interviewing traumatized sources, supporting evidence, finding overlap, and dark rituals. Gain insights into handling sensitive information and conducting thorough investigations in challenging situations.
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HOW TO VERIFY PERSONAL ACCOUNTS @SANNETERLINGEN S.TERLINGEN@VPRO..NL
LISAS STORY Trauma affects memory Witnesses Timeline Forensic evidence (medical evidence, images of child abuse) Don t mess up the evidence! Rebuttal / confrontation with the father Police reports / court case
SURVEY: ORGANIZED CHILD ABUSE 200 people shared their stories about organized child abuse via an online survey. Way to organize stories and find (possible) overlap. Not usable as a dataset. Where can we find evidence?
INTERVIEWING TRAUMATIZED SOURCES Give them control! Location, who is present, etc? Explain WHY you ask certain questions Have a cup of tea Bonding & bounderies Dartcenter.org
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE & FALSIFICATION Witnesses (again) Diaries, notes from therapy, messages exchanged with friends Treathening letters and phone calls Medical reports Pictures Recognized as a victim by authorities Same therapist or survivors group? Can we find the same information on conspiracy theory-websites on the internet? Access to webfora for survivors? (Did they exchange details about locations or perpetators?) Could they have done this to themselves?
FINDING OVERLAP How can we find out if they know the same perpetrators? Identifying from pictures (Photo test) Face to face Together with a colleague More than fifty people recognized by multiple sources, about half of them unfamous people. Overlap in locations, OSINT research to dig further
SHARDS OF GLASS AND DARK RITUALS Audio & English transcript: https://www.vpro.nl/argos/lees/nieu ws/2020/glass-shards-and-dark- rituals-english-transcript-.html Questions? S.terlingen@vpro.nl
