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PERSONAL

EDUCATION

Dean Tong, MSc., BS, holds a Masters of Science in Child Forensic Studies in Psychology and the Law from the Universities of Portsmouth/Leeds in the United Kingdom (2006).

B.S. Northeastern University, Boston, MASS 1979 Major in Biology/Pre-Medicine Deans List Minor in Psychology

1990'S Attended scores of conference seminars and plenary sessions dealing with child custody, and parental alienation syndrome given by Richard Gardner, M.D., Douglas Darnall, Ph.D., and Philip Stahl, Ph.D., at the Childrens Rights Council, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999.

2000 Attended an all-day workshop given by Stephen Ceci, Ph.D., Co-Author of Jeopardy in the Courtroom, Feb. 24, 2000 with Tampa Florida's Louis De La Parte Mental Health Institute on *Preserving the Reliability of Childrens Testimonies*. 7.0 CEU's.

2000: Attended an all-day workshop given by Stephen Ceci, Ph.D., Co-Author of Jeopardy in the Courtroom,  Feb. 24, 2000 with Tampa Florida's Louis De La Parte Mental Health Institute on *Preserving the Reliability of Childrens Testimonies*. 7.0 CEU's.

October 2004:   Attended a two-day workshop given by David Martindale, Ph.D. entitled: "Conducting Child Custody Evaluations - Legal, Ethical, and Clinical Issues." Completed 12.0 hours of training at the University of South Florida in Tampa , Florida

October 2004: Attended an all day workshop given by Kathryn Kuehnle, Ph.D. entitled: "Complex Child Custody Evaluations Involving Allegations of Incest and Abuse." Completed 6.0 hours of training at the University of South Florida in Tampa , Florida

October 2005: Attended the 5th annual conference of the Florida Chapter of the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts - Resolving Family Conflicts: Innovations, Initiatives & Advanced Skills in Tampa, Florida

EXPERIENCE

Professional and independent Forensic Consultant on divorce, child custody, child abuse-related, domestic violence, sex crimes and repressed memory cases, with a concentration in parental alienation, false accusations and mental health disorders. In cases over the past several years Dean Tong has been retained by parents and attorneys from the following 47 states: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV and WY. Author and expert Dean Tong brings a unique and necessary combination of personal (wrongly arrested, decades apart, for child sexual abuse and domestic violence) and professional experience over 25 years that will greatly assist you and your attorneys in clearing your good name. Please click on Mr. Tong's CV here - click here for his CV.

Dean Tong, as Forensic Consultant, assists attorneys and individuals accused of abuse and/or those embroiled in protracted child custody litigation, nationally, with case intake, selection of experts, coordinating psychosexual, psychological and polygraph testing of the accused, legal research relative to help on motions, case law, depositions, request for admissions, et al, the application of science to the law, and overall forensic guidance of court cases. His selection of experts includes: Registered Custody Evaluators; Parental Alienation and Relocation Experts; Borderline Personality Experts; polygraph examiners; psychosexual assessors; forensic pediatricians; miscellaneous medical doctors; criminal, civil, juvenile and administrative expert attorneys; Guardians-Ad-Litem; private investigators; Suggestibility Experts (Child Developmental Psychologists), Attachment Theory Experts, and Psychologists that critique Social Services and other Psychologists.In addition, Mr. Tong, personally, assists family/juvenile and criminal court attorneys at both depositions and trials.

In December 2001, Mr. Tong was qualified as and tendered as an expert witness by Attorney - State Legislator Charles Rusty Webb in Case. No. 98-D-47, Drake v. Drake, out of Parkersburg, West Virginia. In January 2003, Mr. Tong was tendered by Attorney Timothy Lapointe and provided expert testimony in a family court case from Iowa in the case of Kaduce v. Kaduce. To date, Tong has tendered and testified as an expert witness in criminal court in Georgia and proffered in a criminal court case in Florida. And Tong has tendered and testified in civil cases from W. Virginia, Iowa, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

In addition, Mr. Tong is a Florida licensed Laboratory Medical Technologist in Chemistry, Hematology, Serology and Microbiology, License Number TN 19505, with over 20 years of experience in clinical lab settings testing blood and bodily fluids, speaker, radio talk show host and author.

PUBLICATIONS

Dean Tong authored an important article that just published in the Summer Issue of the international magazine In Search Of Fatherhood. Titled Fatherhood Crisis: A Time of Nightmare, Daylight and Redemption, Tong's article looks at both the problems and solutions with respect to fatherhood in the USA over the past 40 years. Click here to read more.

In a new scientific study published in the May - June 2007 issue of The American Journal of Family Therapy, author Dean Tong correlates accused child molesters and their sexual interest propensities with respect to psychosexual testing of the same - (Click Here

Dean Tong's web site herein has been referenced and quoted as part of an Anthology (pp. 41 - 44) in a brand new book (Sept. 2006) titled Child Abuse: Current Controversies, authored by Lucinda Almond and published by Thomson Gale (www.gale.com). A glimpse of the work can be seen here.

Dean Tong and his critically acclaimed book Elusive Innocence have received mention by Dr. Gordon Finley, Professor of Psychology at Florida International University in Miami. Tong's book is referenced in the following article within the following treatise:

Finley, G.E. (2003). Father - Child Relationships Following Divorce. In J.R. Miller, R.M. Lerner, L.B. Schiamberg, & P.M. Anderson (Eds.). Enclyclopedia of Human Ecology, Volume 1: A - H. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, pp. 291 - 293.

Dean Tong and his book Elusive Innocence have been referenced by William Eddy, Esq., LCSW, in his 2003 recently published booklet Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing a Borderline or Narcissist. Attorney Eddy says of Elusive Innocence on page 131 in Splitting - "This is an excellent book for those who have been falsely accused of child sexual abuse in divorce, with many case examples and numerous resources."

Dean Tong is Author of the books:

• Elusive Innocence (Huntington House, 2002)
• ASHES to ASHES... Families to Dust (FamRights Press, 1997)
• Don't Blame ME, Daddy (Hampton Roads, 1992) and

He is Author of the Monograph, Pitfalls When Divorcing a Borderline Personality Disorder Spouse. And, he's a Contributor to the Booklet, Love & Loathing: Protecting Your Mental Health and Legal Rights When Your Partner Has Borderline Personality Disorder.

PRESENTATIONS

Dean Tong has presented seminars on issues related to divorce, custody, child abuse, domestic violence, borderline personality disorder, spanking, and parental alienation syndrome to the following organizations:

• Concerned Fathers of Massachusetts National Association of State VOCAL Organizations DADS, Florida
  
  
• Childrens Rights Council, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002
  
  
• PARENT American Coalition for Fathers and Children International Speakers Network, Inc.
  
  
• VOCAL of New York FRONT
  
  
• Fathers and Families of Massachusetts
  
  
• False Memory Syndrome Foundation: Central Fla. Chapter
  
  
• Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Ft. Myers, FL
  
  
• Book Expo America, Chicago, IL
  
  
• Northwest Child Abuse Defense Resource Center www.dvmen.org (4-19-00), Colorado Springs, CO
  
  
• Fathers For Equal Rights (4-20-00), Denver, CO
  
  
• Florida Writer's Association (floridawriters.net): February 2002
  
  
• DADS of Florida ( www.dadsofflorida.org ): April 2002
• VOCAL-FRONT (approved for 7.5 CLE credits): September 2002
• Million Dads March (milliondadsmarch.org): Father's Day 2003
• Men's Rights Congress (www.mensrights2004.com) Father's Day 2004
• Town Forum Panelist as part of Sustainable Community (www.sustainable-community.org)
  @ University of Chicago January 14, 2006
• DC Festival 2008: False Allegations for Dummies
• California Public Defenders Association (www.cpda.org): December 6, 2008 "Surviving When Falsely Accused of Child Sexual Abuse" (Click here for Certification of Appreciation)

Fathers Are Capable Too of Toronto, Canada (http://fact.on.ca) in September 2000 and Saskatchewan, Canada in December 2002.

Dean Tong presented as the keynote speaker at the Fathers Day 2000 Rally in Washington, DC on June 18.

September 23, 2000: Dean Tong presented a paper entitled *The Separation of Families Without Investigation*: The Abuse of Science versus the Science of Abuse, at the F.A.C.T. (Fathers Are Capable Too) Parenting Conference in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Tong spoke alongside the well-known Canadian Senator, the Honorable Anne Cools.

Dean Tong, in May 2001, presented for the fifth time in the last ten years at the Children's Rights Council in Bethesda, MD. His workshop was entitled CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: Dispelling the Myths in Child Abuse and Custody Cases.

Dean Tong presented in October 2002 for the sixth time in the last eleven years at the Children's Rights Council. His workshop was entitled "True versus False Allegations of Child Abuse."

ORGANIZATIONS

American Society of Trial Consultants (www.astcweb.org)

Metropolitan Registries (click here)

Affiliate Member of the Forensic Section of The Academy of Behavior Profiling (www.profiling.org)

Board of Directors Member for the National Fathers Resource Center

Member, Justice For All Speakers Bureau (www.justiceforallspeakers.com)

MEDIA

Print:

The Washington Post, AP, Reuters, Gannett, Scripps Howard, LA Times, Washington Times, Miami Herald, Arizona Republic, Boston Globe, Tampa Tribune, Florida Times-Union, Denver Post, Christian Science Monitor, Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, Richmond Times-Dispatch, South Florida Parenting Magazine, Penthouse, Newsmax.com , Naples Daily News, The New American, salon.com , ifeminists.com , Florida Bar Journal, Orlando Sentinel, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Nursing Spectrum (click here),Tong article on Fatherhood at about.com (click here), Fostering Families Today Magazine, The American Journal of Family Therapy, Las Vegas Review Journal, The GLOBE Magazine, Op-Ed Columnist at newswithviews.com, The Virginian - Pilot, Rolling Stone Magazine, momlogic.com.

TV:

Inside Edition, COURT-TV, Jerry Springer Show, Faith Daniels Show, Jane Whitney Show, CNBC, Your Turn w/Kathy Fountain, People Are Talking, CNN *TalkBack Live*, CBS Evening News w/Dan Rather, Montel Williams Show (10-24-00), Talk Or Walk (11-19-01), Chicago Counterpoint (11-29-01), Florida News Channel - The Vasilinda Report (4-18-02), Crier Live on Court-TV (9-30-02), ABC's Prime Time Thursday (10-16-03), MSNBC Live, Dr. Phil (09-15-04), FOX News Live - FOX News Channel (02-16-05) w/Martha MacCallum, Crier Live on COURT-TV (02-24-05), FOX News Live (02-27-05) w/Page Hopkins, Both Sides w/Kimberly Guilfoyle-Newsome & Vinnie Politan on Court-TV (04-11-05) - Live at the Michael Jackson Trial, A Current Affair (09-19-05), CNN - Nancy Grace, FOX News Channel: The Big Story & The Lineup, MSNBC - Rita Cosby, CBS' 48 Hours, Court-TV's Courtside w/Jack Ford and Ashleigh Banfield, Dateline NBC.

Radio:

Talk America (JudiWorld), Mort Downey Show, Sun Radio Network, Liberty Works Radio, KOA, WLW, WOAI, WBZ, KABC, KGO, WMEX, Florida News Network, Focus on the Family w/Dr. James Dobson 7-17-00 & 7-18-00. Radio America Network, thetonyshow.com, Nolan At Night (The Gary Nolan Show), WAML w/Charlie Warren, Wisconsin Public Radio, ESPN-Radio (Chicago), KRLA-AM 870 (hisside.com w/Glenn Sacks), familiesundersiege.com (Radio America), Behind The Headlines w/Jane Silk (Radio America), KPSI-AM Palm Springs, CA, The Ken Hamblin Show. KTSA-AM (The Morning Edge with Trey Ware), Fox Sports Radio, The Mitch Albom Show - WJR (Detroit, MI), KTAR, The Bob Dornan Show (bobdornan.com), , Battleline w/Alan Nathan (radioamerica.org), American Breakfast w/Stan Major (nationalradionetwork.com), World Talk Radio w/Annie Armen Live, Voice Of America w/Barbara Klein (Mainstreet), WOR AM-710 w/Ed Walsh, J.D. Balart's American Journal via WMET AM-1160, WWRL AM-1600, The Doug Stephan Show ("Good Day"- Syndicated to >400 stations). KHOW AM-630 Denver, WHO AM-1040 Des Moines, WBT, KCMO, FOX News Radio (Dean Tong as Legal Analyst), The Scott Paulsen Show (The Zone), Across the Nation w/ Attorney Bob Dunning Sirius Channel 159, Bulldog and the Rude Awakening Show on Ocean 98, KFBK, KXYL 97 FM Wendlee Broadcasting (Central Texas), The Lars Larson Show - CBS Radio (National), Eagle Forum Live Radio with Dr. Phyllis Schlafly.

Dean Tong has been a media commentator for the following high profile cases:

• Bridget Marks (Dean Tong's Affidavit that has been introduced on the record in the Marks case - Click here)
• Kobe Bryant
• Catholic Church Child Sex Abuse Scandal
• Elian Gonzalez
• Jon Benet Ramsay
• Megan Kanka, which lead to "Megans Law"
• Michael Jackson
• Woody Allen
• Little Rascals (NC)
• Amirault (MA)
• McMartin (CA)

AWARDS:

• National Wall of Tolerance
• WHO's WHO in Medicine and Healthcare
• Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Florida
• American Coalition for Fathers and Children
• Mayor Ed Austin, Jacksonville, FL
• Northwest Child Abuse Defense Resource Center

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:

1994: Candidate, District 13, Jacksonville, FL, for State House Representative 1994: Testified in the precedent setting dependency case, In the Interest of S.S.J., 19 F.L.W. D632, So.2d (1994) 1996: Helped to pass, along with Senator James Hargrett (D-Tampa), Floridas 'Spanking Bill.' June 27, 2004 on radio jock Glenn Sacks' syndicated show His Side (www.hisside.com), Dean Tong debated celebrity attorney Gloria Allred in a Point-Counterpoint One Hour Interview relative to Parental Alienation Syndrome, false accusations of child sexual abuse, and the high-profile Bridget Marks case.

REFERENCES:

Charles Jamieson, Esq. 561-842-3000 (FL)
Barbara Johnson, Esq. 978-474-0833 (MA)
Steven Klarich, Esq. 714-730-5300 (CA)
Robert Fay, M.D. 518-251-2462 (NY)
Ned Holstein, M.D. 617-357-4832 (MA)
Jeffery Leving, Esq. 312-807-3889 (IL)
Douglas Darnall, Ph.D. 330-759-2310 (OH)
C. Kenneth Ray, Esq. 928-717-9352 or ckrpc@aol.com (AZ)

Contact Mr. Tong via e-mail at DeanTong@aol.com
Contact Mr. Tong via e-mail when sending attached files (if you are a client) at TongDean56@gmail.com