The Investigation and Prosecution of Child Torture

Dr. Barbara Knox is the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Child Protection Program at the American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Also and Associate Professor, Dr. Knox is board certified in General Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics. Chair of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatric Section on Child Abuse and Neglect and is a member of the Ray E. Helfer Society of Child Abuse Physicians. She is the Chair of the Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board that administers the Wisconsin Children's Trust Fund. She is also a team member serving on the Department of Justice's Statewide Child Fatality review team that advises state agencies and the Legislature on law, policy and practice modification in an on-going effort to reduce preventable childhood deaths. She co-directs a statewide Medical Peer Review project in Wisconsin. Areas of research interest for Dr. Knox include child physical/psychological torture as a form of child abuse and sexual torture as a form of child abuse. Dr. Knox has published on many topics, including child torture as a form of child abuse, burns of abuse, abusive head trauma, and is currently an editor for three textbooks relating to child maltreatment. She also reviews current child abuse medical research journal articles for The Quarterly Update.As part of her practice she cares for children who have been or are suspected of being victims of physical abuse sexual abuse and neglect. She also provides medical review of child abuse cases for social service agencies, law enforcement and lawyers. Dr. Sharon Cooper is a developmental and forensic pediatrician who evaluates and treats children who have been victims of all forms of abuse, though she has a particular focus of child victims of sexual exploitation though internet and communication technology. Dr. Cooper holds faculty positions at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Department of Pediatrics and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a consultant and Board member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and has also served as a member of the Expert Working Group on Children who Experience Violence in Cyberspace, of the Baltic Seas. She has lectured nationally and internationally, and has provided Congressional testimony in the United States, Russia, Manitoba Canada, and Italy on child sexual exploitation. She has spoken at the European Commission on a safer Internet and is the lead author of one of the most comprehensive text on child sexual exploitation. Dr. Cooper provides training to numerous national and international investigative agencies in the area of Internet and Communication Technology crimes against children. Dr. Cooper recently served as a Task Force member on the Defending Childhood-Children Exposed to Violence having been appointed by the Attorney General of the United States. Eric Holder. She actively evaluates victims of child abuse images and the commercial sexual exploitation and has been qualified as in expert witness in more than 300 court proceedings. She has evaluated and treated victims of all forms of torture. Dr. François Luyet, MD Dr. Luyet completed his residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and at the Kinderspital in Zürich, Switzerland. He is board certified in General Pediatrics. 35 years ago he joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin,