Helinski v. Rosenberg

ALPERT, Judge.

This defamation case stems from an earlier child custody proceeding in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. At issue was whether Ronald Helinski sexually molested his daughter; Judge Leonard S. Jacobson initially concluded that he did not. One month later on August 20, 1985, the proceedings were reopened to permit the child’s mother to introduce additional evidence. This evidence included the testimony of Dr. Leon Rosenberg, the defendant in this case. Rosenberg is an expert child psychologist whose testimony recounted the child’s statement that her father hurt her in the…