State, in Interest of Jfs

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a victim’s “delayed reporting is not inconsistent with her claim that she was raped” and explaining that “[t]he embarrassment and shame that is characteristic of rape victims prevents many victims from reporting the incident”
• highlighting “studies indicat[ing] that, while some [victims] respond to sexual assault with active resistance, others freeze”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).