All cases have victories, large and small, some come all wrapped up with a big red bow on top!

As you read my blogs you will find I always circle back around to the topic of sex abuse.  I will talk about the Jets or the Packers, my family and friends or really whatever I want to talk about at the time of my blog but ultimately I will always come back to this topic because it is so important to my private investigation practice and to me.

Today my topic is about victories: they can be personal victories, professional victories, legal victories and sometimes they are all wrapped up together with a big red bow. All victories are good but the ones with a big red bow are best!  Everyone has a different idea of what a victory is, the attorneys I work for may not look at the successes we achieve the same way I do but we all agree on one thing something positive for the victims we represent is always an important victory.

I know this is a long lead-in but yesterday was a particularly good day for one of my sex abuse cases.  Many of my cases the abuse occurred while the victim was involved in an organization, like the boy scouts, a church, a school or a sporting organization.  When an institution is involved their is a strong possibility that they knew about the perpetrator and did nothing about the problem. Which is where I come into the picture. As an investigator I go around looking for witnesses or some kind of tangible evidence to show "prior knowledge." Once I get the proof it is another thing to convince the witness to hand over his/her evidence or to go public with the information. Often times this takes some convincing, I can be very convincing!

Today in one of my cases we finally obtained a very important deposition documenting notice to a church. In this case it proved "prior knowledge." This witness establishes the fact, that the church knew they had a problem with a known perpetrator. They knew many years before the victim I am helping was abused. This evidence just increased the value of the client's case, it gave this client validation and It gave the attorney what he needs to proceed to trial. Their are still other legal hurtles to overcome but this was a big start. In my opinion this is a very successful day in a case that is very important to me, so that makes this a big victory all wrapped up with a big red bow.