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Abstract
The evaluation of suspected child sexual abuse is one of the most complicated forensic assessments. This paper describes a method of translating guidelines concerning written expert testimony on child sexual abuse into a quality assessment protocol - the Structured Quality assessment of eXpert testimony, SQX-12 - thereby creating an evaluative tool to assess written expert testimony regarding child sexual abuse. The proposed tool consists of 12 items referring to different quality aspects of written expert testimony. Interrater reliability and some preliminary metric properties were found to be promising. It is concluded that the SQX-12 may provide a small, first step towards the conceptualisation of quality in forensic reports regarding child sexual abuse.