Oklahoma child protection team will disband due to lack of funding

Over the past 39 years, Dr. John Stuemky has sat before hundreds of juries.

Many times, his perspective as a child abuse medical expert was a key decision on whether an alleged abuser was prosecuted.

“It’s a deciding factor 90 percent of the time,” he said.

But after December, the services that he and other child abuse medical experts have provided in countless court cases will be limited because of a funding dilemma the OU College of Medicine’s pediatrics department is facing.