This case is still in progress. According to documentation in the state's Court of Appeals, Thomas Kavanagh, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and two other judges spent an entire year reviewing the Bielaska case and watching six hours of videotaped interviews conducted by Faller and her staff. Elissa Benedek, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, testified in 1990 before Kavanagh and his colleagues that Faller did not meet the standard for unbiased interviewing in sexual abuse cases after reviewing a videotaped interview of a child by Faller. Benedek stated in a 1990 deposition for a different case that Faller is a biased investigator. Faller was not satisfied with 'No,' and asked the same question repetitively.
Faller is coercive, and puts words in the child's mouth.
She suggests her own ideas, thoughts and feelings to the child repetitively. The trial will resume today at 8 a.m. and is expected to run well into this month.