Table 4.

Examples of children’s intermediate descriptions of clothing placement.

Child’s Age	Sample	Question	Answer
5	Forensic	Q: Oh, ok. And where were your clothes when this was happening?	A: My pants were falling down when I was walking, because I needed to use the bathroom (ok) and I had my boxers on, and my shirt was right here [motions to chest].(Oh, ok. Ok) I rolled it up.
6	Forensic	Q: And where were your shorts?	A: On me too, its just pulled off a little bit.
7	Forensic	Q: But when [suspect] touched your vagina what happened to your underpants?	A: He lifted them up, put his finger it in (ok), touched my vagina, blood came out [inaudible], blood came out of my vagina, touching my underpants, we put them in the trash.
8	Forensic	Q: How were [suspect’s] pants when he made you suck his private?	A: He was wearing shorts, like, his shorts were down to like his knees.
9	Forensic	Q: When he touched you where were your clothes?	A: He just pulled down my pants up to here [points to calf].
9	Forensic	Q: Ok, and how did his hand get to your middle, how did it get there?	A: Like he went under the dress, and then, he felt my shorts and then he he put his two hands, he put one of them one of them to hold up the pants stretch, and then he put his hand under my underwear. And all he did with his two hands, he just, he just touch inside my middle.
9	Criminal	Q. How far did he pull your underwear down?	A. All the way down to my feet.
9	Criminal	Q. Where were your panties?	A. They was down to my feet.
11	Criminal	Q. And when you wore shorts. What did he do with the shorts?	A. He would pull them down to my knees, too.
12	Criminal	Q. How far off his body did he take off his pants?	A. It wasn’t like - it was on his waist but only his zipper and his buttons were off.