In 2011 I did four years as a school liaison officer at two elementary schools on the north side, and in that job I sat through about forty hours of training on interviewing children, and most of what I remember from it is one thing that a woman from the county advocacy center said on the first morning.

She said: “You will not have to identify an abused child.

That is not the skill.

The abused child will tell you.

The skill is not talking over the top of her while she does it.”

There is a third thing and I have only ever said it out loud twice.