Yeah. The whole experience might fail and would probably turn out to be punishing for her and her family in a variety of ways. I’m just saying how I would hope it to happen. I pictured one of the school administrators on the stand under oath, having to explain themselves to people with more authority than them, and it was too compelling to let go of.
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sqgl@beehaw.org 2 weeks agoWho will pay to run the law suit? And who will pay the legal costs of the other side if she loses?
Hollywood movies of heroic legal battles often ignore this.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 weeks ago
sqgl@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Furthermore…
Until recently, if it was in Australia she could have been gagged by the court supposedly for her own protection.
So a court decision could go against her for absurd reasons which ignore facts but nobody would be allowed to talk publicly about such injustice.
Grace “Tame was groomed and repeatedly sexually assaulted by a paedophile teacher, but for years Tasmania’s gag laws meant she was unable to speak out, while her abuser bragged on Facebook.”
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Sometime lawyer take a case pro bono, maybe they think the case helps their firm with publicity, or maybe they feels like the same thing can happen to their loved one so its better to set a good precedent.
In this case, she did the even smarter thing, went straight to the lawmaker so it’s punishable by law in the future.