During the second appeal, the Court of Cassation had expressed doubts about the methods used by the Mirandola psychologists and the technical consultants from Turin. It held that the children’s stories “lacked confirmation of any form and were received in a credulous manner” by the doctors. These same psychologists, whom Modena’s court had appreciated for their competence a year before, during the Pedophiles-1 and Pedophiles-2 trials, were now being called “young and lacking in specialized experience.”
