An attorney, upon handling an incest case, learns that she was an incest
victim by her father from the age of five months to five years. Through
therapy, she arranges to confront her father and her mother (for
physical and emotional abuse in her teens) and gets nowhere. She is
further frustrated when she takes on another incest case, only to have
the judge throw it back in her face after the child's testimony of what
was being done to her is disbelieved and the abuser apparently doesn't
fit the "profile" of one who would commit incest. Her anger mounts upon
learning that the little girl of the first incest case she was handling
ends up with severe emotional damage because of the judge's refusal to
stop the father's visitation, after medical evidence of the incest was
presented in court (with graphic descriptions of what took place). Upon
learning this news and exploding at the injustice of the system that
seems to protect the abusers instead of the victims, she embarks on a
crusade with another attorney to get a law passed for incest victims to
be able to sue for damages when they are adults upon their recollection
of the incest. |
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