Some members of the prosecution team have asserted that if a child who is a suspected abuse victim draws a picture of a child without a mouth, the picture is evidence that the child has been a victim of oral sex. The child found giving oral sex unpleasant. Therefore, by drawing a self-portrait without a mouth, the child cannot be made to perform oral sex. Often you will see annotations written on these drawings in the file. This picture shows that Heidi is regressing.
Regression is allegedly an indication that the child has been sexually abused.
Because suspected abuse victims are generally given so-called anatomically detailed or anatomically correct dolls with which to play, the children often draw physically matured figures. These figures are devoured as manna by mental health professionals, complaining spouses, the complaining spouses' divorce attorneys. The drawings of the child will be in those files . . . The drawings may never be used, but you cannot afford to go forward unaware of their existence. Anything you write in the Guestbook will be kept strictly confidential.