SI DA brings in therapy dog to help calm witnesses
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Subject: SI DA brings in therapy dog to help calm witnesses Thu May 31, 2012 7:10 am
Meet Bronksey – the Staten Island District Attorney’s new victims advocate. The 2-year-old golden retriever-lab mix has just joined the office to help calm the nerves of witnesses, especially children, as they testify in stressful situations. He’s also the first permanent “comfort dog” to be employed by a district attorneys office in New York City. “We investigate over 300 child abuse cases a year and you can imagine how difficult it must be for a child to explain some horrific incident that happened to them to strangers,” Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said yesterday in announcing his newest addition to the office.
