Article: Court rejects limits on questioning child sex assault victims in lawsuit

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. ...

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