Polycop,

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My primary concern with this type of polygraph screening is not that it is unfair (you win, it is ), but that it is completely inaccurate and has no business being masqueraded to clinical psychologists or any other counselors (unfortunately, many times lacking the scientific backgrounds to evaluate the validity of "tools" that are peddled to them) as a diagnostic tool.  I don't know and haven't discussed this matter with this diverse group of professionals, but am aware of one who has researched (and presumably will publish) the issue of the post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) that various polygraph examinees have suffered as a result of having endured the nonsense connected with taking polygraph exams.  I would suggest you double your professional liability insurance before that one is released. 

Now so that you know I DID NOT DO IT,  and it pisses me off that because someone gets pissed at you they can make allegations and put you in this situation.

Im 47 with no history of ever hurting anyone.....
Also as for her allegations in July here is what she was writing in chat rooms in may,

Session Start: Tue May 28 03:56:56 2002
Session Ident: Anna-belle
<Amber15> you ever been with your uncle
<Amber15> I need help
<Anna-belle> sorry, i never was, amber
<Anna-belle> what kind of help?
<Amber15> I want to try to be with him but hes doesn't look at me that way
<Amber15> he has cuctody of me
<Amber15> hes older than me
<Amber15> ive had sex with guys my age and a couple girls too
<Amber15> its hard to be alone with him but we go fishing all night
<Amber15> but I end up sleeping for 3 or 4 hours
<Anna-belle> slow down =) you want to have sex with your uncle?
<Amber15> yes
<Amber15> sorry
<Amber15> just thats hes working his baking job and will be home soon
<Amber15> im supposed to be in bed sleep
<Anna-belle> and who else lives with the two of you?
<Amber15> his wife and my cousin and his girlfriend and baby
<Anna-belle> that's like, not an easy way
<Amber15> I know
<Anna-belle> you want just sex, or love him?
<Amber15> both maybe

Bnickell

To POLYCOP, 
Just look up the case its public. The CID Agent asked him to take a polygraph. He agreed with no problems, went down to the DOD polygraph institute on base, and took the test. The examiner told him, YOU PASSED! He went back the next day to US Army Trial Defense and spoke to the TD attorney who told him that he was going to be court martialed. They refused to use the polygraph results. Now a friend of mine told me it was because this was during the time when all the drill sergeants were being accused and it was all political but then again, a poly should have cleared him if they are all that BATMAN says that they are. Now polycop is it right that he got screwed. i dont think it is, i think its not right.

Bnickell,

How did the investigators looking into your neice's accusation react to your refusal to submit to a polygraph interrogation? For example, did they suggest that your refusal implies that you are guilty? If so, you might wish to refer them (perhaps in writing, so as to create a documented record) to this website, and especially to Chapter 3 of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector. Hopefully, your investigators are less inclined to make snap judgements of guilt based on the slightest of evidence than our friend Batman seems to be.

Moreover, I think any grand jury (that might bring an indictment) or petit jury (that would decide innocence or guilt) would have little difficulty understanding why an innocent person would refuse a polygraph "test," once they understand the fraudulent nature of the procedure. (Although polygraph evidence, or even the fact that a suspect refused a polygraph, is not generally admissible as evidence in a court of law, law enforcement agencies often leak such information to the press, which tends to cause prejudice against the suspect in the mind of the public -- including the pool of potential jurors. If your story makes its way into the press, to defend yourself, you might want to explain to reporters precisely why you refused the polygraph, and perhaps to refer them to AntiPolygraph.org for further information on this pseudoscientific procedure.)