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Article: Court rejects limits on questioning child sex assault victims in lawsuit
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 29, 1999
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The parents of a man convicted of sexually assaulting his children
can question the victims about the assaults in a lawsuit that the
children's mother brought against them, the state Supreme Court ruled
Friday.
The man was convicted in 1992 of first-degree sexual assault of
his former wife's two children, girls who were 5 and 2 at the time
of the assaults.
The man's former wife sued him, his parents and their insurers in
October 1993 on behalf of the children. The lawsuit alleged
negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress on the
part of the grandparents for failing to properly supervise the man's
visits with the children. ...