Dog Helps Rape Victim Testify

By helping girl testify at rape trial, dog ignites legal debate

Rosie, the first judicially approved courtroom dog in New York, was in the witness box here nuzzling a 15-year-old girl who was testifying that her father had raped and impregnated her. Rosie sat by the teenager's feet. At particularly bad moments, she leaned in. When the trial ended in June with the father's conviction, the teenager "was most grat...