Post date: Jul 30, 2011 7:44:35 PM
Page v. Zordan, 564 So.2d 500, 502 (Dist. Ct. of App. Fla. 1990).
The "Sex Abuse Legitimacy Scale" (SALS) was rejected because there was no "reasonable degree of recognition and acceptability among the spectrum of scientific or medical experts." (It should be noted that Gardner developed the SALs in conjection with PAS, an a large portion of his first book on PAS was devoted to the SALs. In addition, the scale included criteria on PAS suggesting that if signs of alienation were present than a sex abuse allegation was less likely to be true. At the same time if the allegation was found not to be true via the SALs than PAS was considered likely to be present. Gardner ultimately withdrew the scale after it was disallowed by the courts and severely criticized in several peer-reviewed articles