In 1996, as awareness of the threat of child sexual abuse was reaching its apex and the word pedophile was increasingly appearing in national headlines, a group of legal experts led by psychologist, professor, and lawyer Guglielmo Gulotta drafted the Carta di Noto, a document containing guidelines for examining minors in cases of suspected abuse. It later became a milestone of legal psychology. One of the document’s key points advised experts to “avoid, in particular, recourse to suggestive or implicative questions that assumed the existence of the very fact that was being investigated.”
