Sex crimes are among the most common reasons for consultation in Clinical Forensic Medicine Section and the Legal Medical Units of the Department of Judicial Investigation Organization of the Judiciary of Costa Rica Legal Medicine and to date there is no formal protocol of approach to the valuation of these. The development of a forensic protocol addressing victims of sexual offenses in itself has some negligible benefits including: promote the minimization of errors in the process of collecting data and evidence, properly collect information enabling prospective studies, promoting everything previously noted the development of a quality Medical Legal Opinion.
Protocol; sexual offences; Legal medical opinion; quality