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Article: Strategies for interviewing domestic violence clients. (Victims and Violence)
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- Trial
- Article date:
- February 1, 1995
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All Carl Curtis wanted was to get Sandra Firth out of his life. What he got was a substantial punitive damage judgment --against himself. When Curtis evicted Firth from his guest house after sexually abusing her for years, she countersued him for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress during their 10-year relationship.(1)
Curtis v. Firth and other cases around the country are bringing experts on Battered Woman Syndrome from criminal trials into civil courts and raising questions about who is to blame when a woman stays with a man who batters her.(2) Lawyers who represent battered women are trying to educate judges and juries about why domestic ...