Sexual Abuse Expert Witnesses in New Mexico

This qualified nursing expert earned her ADN from Eastern Oklahoma State College and her BSN from East Central University. She is a board certified emergency nurse and certified in advanced cardiac life support and basic life support. She is also a certified adult and adolescent sexual assault nurse examiner. This expert as published four for the Emergency Nurses Association where she is also a member. She holds additional memberships with the International Association of Forensic Nursing and the American Nurses Association. She has served formerly as a flight nurse for Eagle Med Air Medical Service and as a trauma nurse at OU Medical Center. Currently, this expert works as an emergency department educator and staff nurse at an acute general care hospital in Oklahoma.

This expert has 10 years of experience as a litigator and more than 30 years of experience as a staff person and volunteer in agencies advocating for victims of abuse and neglect. In addition to her Juris Doctorate and Masters Degree in Human Relations, she also has a diploma from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics in Interdisciplinary Training in Child Abuse and Neglect. A nationally and internationally recognized expert in the area of child sexual abuse prevention, she played an integral role in the research, development, and implementation of a child sexual abuse prevention program that is delivered in 87 U.S. Catholic dioceses, representing about 75% of the Catholics in the U.S. Currently, this expert is the Owner and Principal of a consulting firm that provides programs and services to educate adults about the nature and scope of child sexual abuse and teaches adults how to recognize other adults whose behavior may indicate that they are a potential risk to children. Her consulting firm also works with corporations and agencies to create policies, procedures, and processes for screening and supervising employees and volunteers who work with children.

This expert has extensive experience in cases involving child abuse or injury in institutional settings (i.e. schools, churches, foster care, youth groups, day care, treatment centers, residential facilities and hospitals), failure to supervise, interpersonal violence and bullying, sexual abuse by teachers, clergy or staff members and child-on-child abuse. She can help you assess standards and practices, policies and procedures, and questions of negligence. Having worked on the ground floor as the field of child abuse recognition and prevention was developing, she has specialized knowledge and experience regarding the standard of care in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.