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Demetrick says such an interview is “less likely” to take place now, especially with the CYAC program in place and developing partnerships in the community, including with the RCMP.

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She says the local program allows for young victims to be interviewed in a child-and youth-friendly room where no one wears a uniform.

“If police are in there, they have to be in plain clothes.”

The interview is conducted in a “forensically-sound unbiased way.”

“Once it is over, we step in,” Demetrick explains.

She says staff help with the court process and offer free counselling for victims and families.

But Demetrick admits more changes are needed.

The Archway Society is calling for “a better system — one where police and social workers are specifically trained” in how to conduct sex assault interviews with kids and youths.

The group says an interview with a victim “should never be an interrogation.”