One in 10 children will be sexually abused before their eighteenth birthday; survivors can attest to the pain and trauma that lasts them a lifetime. The health cost to our society is in the billions of dollars annually. Yet the most egregious injustices against child sex abuse survivors happen each day in family courts.
Author: Maralee Mclean
Maralee McLean is a child advocate, protective parent, domestic violence expert witness, professional speaker and author of Prosecuted But Not Silenced: Courtroom Reform for Sexually Abused Children. She has written several articles for the ABA Child Law Journal, Women’s eNews and other publications and is a SheSourceExpert and member of the RAINN speakers bureau and All American Speakers. Maralee presents at conferences, law schools, legal conferences and women’s rights conferences and is a spokesperson for protective mothers.