By Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press Mar. 17--Second of two parts Last Jan. 29, with her sexual abuse case against a West Bloomfield couple on the verge of collapse, Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Andrea Dean called a psychologist named Sandra McClennen to the witness stand.

By John Wisely and L.L. Brasier, Detroit Free Press Feb. 4--Attorneys representing the parents of a severely autistic girl will ask a judge Tuesday to pull her out of a Walled Lake high school, where investigators say she accused her parents of abuse.

A Michigan judge allowed a severely autistic girl to testify at the sexual abuse trial of her suburban Detroit parents despite objections by defense attorneys.

By L.L. Brasier and John Wisely, Detroit Free Press Jan. 29--A 14-year-old autistic girl was unable to answer questions in court Monday using the same controversial communication method prosecutors used to charge her father with rape, according to a defense attorney who witnessed the demonstration.