Unreliable Recovered Memories: Why They Should Not Be Used as Evidence in Court

Recovered Memories Are Not Reliable or a Credible Source of Evidence in Court [Name] [University] Outline: Background Adults who claim to remember they had been sexually abused as a child is what came to be known as recovered memories Psychotherapists explain that memories of child abuse get repressed and later get recovered Thesis Statement: Problems with the memory, creation of false memories during intervention, and lack of evidence to back their usefulness makes recovered memories unreliable and should not be presented as a credible source of evidence in court. Problems with memory Repressed memories have become more known as dissociative amnesia (Otgaar, et al., 2019) The therapists have argued that repressed memories could be recovered in adulthood and accurately provide evidence in assault cases It is more prob