DAVID DEAKIN is the chief of the Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Boston. He supervises teams of lawyers, victim witness advocates, forensic interviewers and investigators, who investigate and prosecute cases of physical and sexual abuse of children, child homicide, domestic violence, and adult sexual assault. Before becoming chief of the Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau in 2004, Mr. Deakin served as chief of the Child Abuse Unit since 1998, and before that, he worked as an assistant district attorney in the Child Abuse Unit. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Deakin worked as a prosecutor in the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office. He is a 1991 graduate of the Harvard Law School.