DOJ-OGR-00008017.pdf

--- Page 1 --- **Document Header** * Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE * Document 499-2 * Filed 11/23/21 * Page 149 of 159 * LBAAMAX5ps * Rocchio - Cross **Transcribed Text** 1. Q. All right. And if we go to the summary here, the author is critical of offender-generated data or questions 2. "offender-generated data through self-reports because it could be subject to cognitive distortions -- minimization or exaggerations," correct? 3. A. I think that they are identifying potential issues that could be present with offender-generated data. 4. Q. Right. If we go to page 4, the McElvaney and Culhane article. 5. A. The opinions in that study did continue. You didn't refer to all of their opinions, just part of them. 6. Q. That's OK. The government can ask you questions on redirect if they'd like. 7. A. OK. 8. Q. In this opinion, in this, the findings are, "Majority of children told their mothers and their peers first." Do you see that? 9. A. Of those who disclosed, the majority told mothers and peers, yes. 10. Q. Right. Then the next study, 2014, when the -- 11. A. So that study, though, was among -- everybody in that study had already disclosed. It was a study of children who had already disclosed, to look at who they disclosed to. 12. Q. Right. 13. Then we have the next study here, "220 minor victims" 14. SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. 15. (212) 805-0300 **Footer** * DOJ-OGR-00008017