Darker Me

I’ll rip apart 6-year-old victims on the witness stand and make sure the rest of their life is ruined. When they’re 8 years old they throw up; when they’re 12 years old, they won’t sleep; when they’re 19 years old, they’ll have nightmares and they’ll never have a relationship with anybody.

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James Fagan on his strategy for questioning victims of child rape.

i understand & support a defense attorney’s obligation to his client but this is just horrible. is not the job of a defense attorney his client’s aquittal not the ensurance of a child’s future relational and social misery? there’s a big difference between exposing a false testimony and punishing victims - children - for testifying.

(via hilker)