The Gesell chamber is a forensic examination with scientific tendency that has to be practiced by psychologists and social workers. It has to be presented before a criminal judge. Its purpose is to receive the victim’s testimony and to determine their psychological damage. The psychologists must build upon their expertise, the victim’s knowledge and the truthfulness, memory and coherence of the victim’s story, which must be debated during the trial. The right to defense of the accused must be guaranteed, allowing for the intervention of an expert from the defense during the forensic examination. The victim’s declaration must be taken only once, in order to avoid further suffering.

The Gesell chamber is a forensic examination with scientific tendency that has to be practiced by psychologists and social workers. It has to be presented before a criminal judge. Its purpose is to receive the victim’s testimony and to determine their psychological damage. The psychologists must build upon their expertise, the victim’s knowledge and the truthfulness, memory and coherence of the victim’s story, which must be debated during the trial. The right to defense of the accused must be guaranteed, allowing for the intervention of an expert from the defense during the forensic examination. The victim’s declaration must be taken only once, in order to avoid further suffering.

La experiencia de magistrado, ha permitido apreciar que la mera instalación de la “Cámara Gesell”, como fundamental “mecanismo” de recaudación del testimonio del menor de edad, víctima de abuso sexual no “garantiza” la disminución de las posibilidades “revictimizantes”, que puedan afectar de manera perniciosa y aflictiva al menor agraviado. La Cámara Gesell, como se viene aplicando, resulta “un proceso formalista o protocolar del proceso penal”, concebido para mejorar el sistema legal y no se vulnere “los derechos fundamentales”, afectando el respeto a la “dignidad de la víctima”. Desde el punto de vista jurídico, se requiere la adecuación a la realidad nacional, implementación e interpretación normativa que permita, de manera idónea, “la actuación profesional del psicólogo forense, así como la implementación del ambiente, la dinámica en la ...

The Gesell chamber is a forensic examination with scientific tendency that has to be practiced by psychologists and social workers. It has to be presented before a criminal judge. Its purpose is to receive the victim’s testimony and to determine their psychological damage. The psychologists must build upon their expertise, the victim’s knowledge and the truthfulness, memory and coherence of the victim’s story, which must be debated during the trial. The right to defense of the accused must be guaranteed, allowing for the intervention of an expert from the defense during the forensic examination. The victim’s declaration must be taken only once, in order to avoid further suffering.