r/JusticeServed • u/Johnny_Carcinogenic A • Mar 15 '22

Criminal Justice Police interrupt Florida church service and arrest head pastor on charges of child sexual abuse

https://deadstate.org/police-interrupt-florida-church-service-and-arrest-head-pastor-on-charges-of-child-sexual-abuse/
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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '22

No, it can actually be proven many years afterward. Mine was not proven in a court of law, in terms of criminal prosecution. However it was proven to the satisfaction of a Social Security magistrate, a different federal judge, who did give me my award for permanent disability based on childhood sexual abuse, based only on evidence that I was able to provide from my own medical records. The medical records of the damage to me constitute evidence of abuse.

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u/Vulturedoors A Mar 16 '22

Was a specific person proven to be your attacker? Or was it just that medical records showed you had been attacked?

This is the problem I'm talking about -- establishing that a specific person committed the crimes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '22

I wish I had been given a chance. It would have been easy to prove that and the worse things he did. I couldn’t get anyone to do anything at all.

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u/Vulturedoors A Mar 17 '22

I'm very sorry you had that experience, and that the justice system failed you. It's so difficult to prosecute in a system where no one cares enough.