Sexual Abuse / Sexual Assault Attorney in Houston, Texas
What are the biggest challenges you face in clergy abuse cases?
What are the biggest challenges you face in clergy abuse cases?
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so many people
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because of the tremendous pain that
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they’ve endured for so long
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whether it’s they don’t want to tell
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their family they don’t want to tell
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their friends
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they want to keep this quiet the biggest
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challenge to me
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is talking to a client and telling them
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it’s okay
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to be supportive to let them know that
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they’re not alone
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you know filing a lawsuit is is the
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beginning
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potentially of some amount of closure
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and again not that we’re going to fix
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all problems because we can’t
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but yet to to be open
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and courageous about the injury itself
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it’s a delicate situation and you know
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my firm now has
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we have 10 different lawyers working on
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this litigation
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and probably 30 different staff members
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working on this litigation so we have
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the experience to talk with with clients
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but it’s not easy and it’s challenging
Houston, TX litigation attorney David P. Matthews talks about the biggest challenge he faces in clergy abuse cases.
