How Child Abuse Is Silenced by Legal Loopholes

Content warning: this conversation includes discussion of child sexual abuse. Support services can be found further down in these show notes.

 

Lawyer and advocate Judy Courtin discusses her work representing survivors of institutional child abuse and how legal technicalities have long protected powerful institutions.

 

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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie

Guest: Judy Courtin

Executive Producer: Matthew Tankard

Editor: Michael Tankard

 

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