PA- Regional Forensic Services.com is run by Rhonda Henderson, a forensic nurse whose flawed findings triggered a review of dozens of sexual assault cases.

Rhonda Henderson, the Erie County forensic nurse whose flawed findings triggered a review of dozens of sexual assault cases in northwestern Pennsylvania, is being promoted for her expertise as a forensic legal consultant on a new website.

"Rhonda looks at information from an evidence perspective," regionalforensicservices.com states. "She isolates details and connects the dots in order to accurately and efficiently find the answers you need."

"Whether the client is plaintiff or defense, your profits will escalate with RFS on your side," the site states.

Henderson, a former Saint Vincent Health Center nurse, no longer serves as an expert witness for the Erie County District Attorney's Office.

In a report filed Feb. 4, Chief Deputy District Attorney Beth Hirz said medical experts had contradicted Henderson's findings in 39 Erie County sexual assault cases dating between 2000 and 2010.

Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri's office quietly launched the review of cases involving Henderson in March 2010 after a team of doctors who are experts in child abuse told him a report Henderson prepared in an Allegheny County case was riddled with errors.

Out of all of Henderson's findings of abnormalities on the child's body, they said, only one was consistent with child abuse. That mark, however, was also consistent with the child's medical history of chronic constipation with rectal bleeding, they said.

They wrote: "Misrepresentation of medical examinations in cases of alleged sexual abuse can result in a disturbing range of consequences: altered bodily perceptions by the child and parent, psychological harm to the alleged perpetrator, caregiver separation, false conviction and incarceration of alleged perpetrators, and true convictions which may be overturned on the basis of false evidence."

They closed with a declaration:

"We, the undersigned, believe nurse Henderson's clinical behavior is unacceptable and has possibly resulted in serious, devastating consequences to many individuals in multiple counties in Pennsylvania which relied on her to provide objective medical exams."


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