The New Jersey Supreme Court, reversing decades-old precedent, decided Tuesday that a psychological theory used for decades to prosecute criminal cases of child sexual abuse is largely invalid.

In a 58-page opinion authored by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, the unanimous court ruled against the admissibility of expert testimony on most elements of a theory, child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome, long used to explain why children often don’t disclose sexual abuse until they grow up.

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