The following material has been prepared and provided
by Allen Cowling and Cowling Investigations, Inc., for educational purposes and was designed to
assist anyone who is facing a false accusation, false allegation or false allegations of child abuse,
sexual abuse, child molesting, incest, rape or who has been wrongfully convicted, because of a false
allegation. None of the material provided in the individual links identified below, should ever be
relied on as a replacement for qualified legal assistance under any circumstances.
If you are visiting here for the first time and have
been falsely accused, I would strongly recommend that you click and review our Site Map link. It will provide you with a simple description of every page
on this website and give you the ability to find specific information that applies to you and your
case. I would also recommend viewing the Your Attorney link on this
page. There are 10 additional links to that page that could prove very beneficial, one being a
detailed explanation of what is necessary for a father to win custody of his children when confronted
with false allegations of child sexual abuse.
Before sending us email, an email with a file
attachment, a letter or a request asking that we telephone you regarding a problem, or before asking
what we do or how much it would cost, please click and read Our Policy This identifies the specific manner in which we deal with all
correspondence, emails and telephone calls. For an explanation of how we defend cases, see How we Assist Clients. We can Help! If you have been falsely accused of
child abuse, see What to Do - What Not to Do When Falsely Accused and Dealing with Your Emotions
When Falsely Accused.
Without question, false allegations of child abuse as
well as convictions based on these allegations, have become nothing short of an epidemic during the
past ten years and the obvious question is, why? One major reason for the increase is the mandated
reporting law, making it a felony when certain individuals fail to report suspected abuse. As to
convictions, often they can be attributed to those prosecutors, social workers and child advocates
who have no desire to find the truth, but simply want to validate a child's accusations, even in
some cases where evidence supports that the child accuser was never abused. These save the world
vigilantes are responsible for sending hundreds of innocent people to prison solely based on the
fact that a child said it happened. Secondly, many convictions are the result of defense attorneys
who have no clue as to how to defend these specific types of cases, but because of ego, refuse to
associate others who do and, as result, simply stumble through a defense.
A false allegation is a lie and when a child tells it,
there is absolutely nothing preventing them from adding to the story. Most do and usually it
is because they are trying to please their interviewer. See the link above, "Why Lies
Multiply". Survival for the wrongfully accused means refusing to accept the lie and refusing
to become another victim of the system. The lie can be exposed, but only by beginning a proper
and aggressive defense as soon as the allegation surfaces. Defending a false allegation of abuse does
require expertise. There are no easy or instant solutions. Much to popular belief, there is
absolutely no profile and/or no specific characteristics of a molested child or of a child molester.
It just does not exist, but prosecutors will attempt to convince a jury that there is through some
"quack" doctor and the inexperienced defense counsel allows it in without
objection.
In a great many false allegation cases dealing with
child sexual abuse, unfortunately, the initial advice given to the accused is let's wait and
see what they have before we do anything. Those giving that advice have no understanding that
while waiting, ample opportunity exists for someone to work with that child and, over time, one
charge can easily become 10 to 15 individual indictments. When that happens, then the advice normally
becomes, accept the plea bargain.
We have a great deal of expertise in preparing a legal
defense in false allegation cases, working with individuals who have been wrongfully convicted and in
assuring that anyone falsely accused has proper and adequate legal representation. We have
participated on more than 230 trials and assisted in more than 500 cases in 49 states, Mexico,
Canada, The United Kingdom, France, Italy, Brazil and Japan.
A conviction for anyone who has been wrongfully
accused usually is a result of a totally incompetent defense; investigative, trial preparation,
strategy or court presentation. There is absolutely no room for any mistake when defending these
cases. Often, immediate and proper action can actually prevent indictments, keeping the entire matter
out of the legal system, but timing is critical. Allen Cowling, with more than 39 years of experience
as a private investigator and defense strategist, has, for more than a decade, devoted his practice
to the specialization of defending false allegations of child abuse, criminal defense preparation,
overturning convictions for the innocent and legal malpractice cases for clients, worldwide. We make
the impossible possible by providing a "defense strategy" that is designed to expose the
lie.
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