Astrid Heppenstall Heger

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Astrid Heppenstall Heger is the Executive Director of the Violence Intervention Program (VIP) and Chairperson of the program’s affiliated non-profit organization, VIP Community Mental Health Center, Inc. ^[1] She was an expert witness at the McMartin preschool trial. ^[2]

[edit] Publications

Evaluation of the Sexually Abused Child: A Medical Textbook and Photographic Atlas ISBN 0195131266

[edit] References

^ "Astrid Heppenstall Heger, M.D", Violence Intervention Program. Retrieved on 2007-08-21. "Dr. Heger is an internationally recognized expert on the medical diagnosis of child abuse and neglect and sexual assault in all ages. The need for improved technology resulted in her pioneering the use of photo-documentation to document injuries associated with child abuse and sexual assault. Dr. Heger developed and implemented the first telemedicine link to provide quality case assessments at remote sites within the United States and around the world. Her groundbreaking work in child abuse has become the international standard of care and is the basis of her textbook, Evaluation of the Sexually Abused Child, published by Oxford University Press."
^ "Judges Ruling Stops Defense in Abuse Case.", New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-08-21. "Central to the prosecution case is the testimony of Dr. Astrid Heger, a physician who examined many of the 14 children and testified that those she examined had been sexually molested. The defense said they wanted to call a medical expert, whom they did not name, to rebut the testimony of Dr. Heger. She is the chief examining physician of the Children's Institute International of Los Angeles, a nonprofit agency that investigates sex abuse charges."