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Definitions:

Privite Investigator:         An investigator hired by your attorney, or an investigator hired by you through your
                                        attorney, to preform investigations on your case.

Local Law Investigator: A local law enforcement (Police, Sheriff or other) assigned to investigate you and your case.

C.P.S. Investigator:         A member of the Department of Social and Human Services assigned to investigate you
                                        and your case.

The importance of having your own investigator hired through your attorney cannot be stressed enough. DO NOT hire an investigator on your own. Hire one through your attorney, or have your attorney hire one for you, this way the investigator comes under the attorney/client protection laws. And the investigators findings are protected from disclosure to anyone without your attorneys knowledge and consent.

Neither can the fact that you need a private investigator experienced in the child/sex abuse cases be stressed enough. The local law investigator is well trained in child/sex abuse cases and is investigating you and your case for the prosecution. He is not looking for truth or justice - no matter what you have been told, or may believe - the local law investigator is investigating you and your case for the state's side of the case, in essence working for the prosecutor.

If the Child Protection Services is involved in your case, which they are if the supposed crime involves a child, they (DSHS/CPS) too are well experienced in child abuse cases. Again the CPS investigator is investigating you and your case, for the state's side of the case. They are only interested in proving the allegations. From their standpoint children do not lie, therefore the allegations are true and correct and they, like local law enforcement, feel a duty to find you guilty thereby protecting the child.

Local law enforcement, to include but not limited to: police, sheriff and the prosecutor, have an astronomical amount of money and resourses at their beckon call. DO NOT become a spend thrift, in the area of investigations in your case. Allow no stone to be left unturned, so that you can put up the best fight, against the state who have been known to do anything and everything to convict a person, guilty or innocent. Becoming a spend thrift can only impede your case.

Keep abreast of the investigations and findings of the investigations in your case, you may be able to provide input that can cause more facts to be uncovered. DO NOT hide anything from the investigator, or your attorney - even if you feel it is not relevant, it just my be the missing piece your investigator or attorney needs to prove your innocence.

Have the person making the allegations investigated. Investigate them and their household for clues and reasons for the false allegations - remember the best defense is a good offense. Instead of "running" from them, make them "run" from you. A good private investigator experienced on child abuse/sex abuse cases, can be and is, just as vital to your case as a good attorney.