Introduction of evidence relating to the now-discredited behavioural-science syndrome known as ‘child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome’ in R v Ellis demonstrates the danger of syndrome reasoning in judicial fact finding. Comparable syndrome evidence is still used in the Family Court in the form of ‘parental alienation syndrome’. Ellis should sound the death knell for all forensic applications of unreliable syndrome reasoning in the courts.

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同一枚硬币的两面：综合症证据、虐待儿童和彼得·休·麦格雷戈·埃利斯的错误定罪

在R v Ellis 案中引入与现已被怀疑的行为科学综合症（称为“儿童性虐待适应综合症”）相关的证据表明了司法事实认定中综合症推理的危险。类似的综合症证据仍然以“父母疏远综合症”的形式在家庭法院使用。埃利斯应该为法庭上所有不可靠综合症推理的法医应用敲响丧钟。