The child psychiatrist was brought in. She was a professor at some fancy university. A woman in her late thirties, she had no children of her own. She sat down and watched the tapes and read through the diary.
"This is very helpful," she said. "I will try to talk to her about everything but we need to separate her from her mother."
She pointedly looked towards us. "You're thinking that her mother will try to intercept the conversation?" I asked.
"Yes, she has written what was done to her so her mother must have said some things to keep her from spilling to the police. We need to separate the two. You can interrogate the mother and I can talk to the child. When I get a full account of everything that happened, I will file charges against the mother as a medical representative. We can get them completely separated that way."
