Today, I was supposed to attend a luncheon celebrating passage of “ Trey’s Law ” in Texas and Missouri this year. Instead, I was trapped in a Dallas County courtroom on a panel of potential jurors for a child sexual abuse case.

As the time for the luncheon drew closer and I realized I would not be excused from the jury panel in time, the irony was not lost on me. I was being kept from an event celebrating extended statutes of limitations for child sexual abuse cases while participating in the very legal process necessary to address child sexual abuse.

The party was interrupted by reality.

Mark Wingfield

This case, we learned , concerned a man accused of making oral contact with the genitalia of a child under 6 years of age. That’s all we knew, except for a few other hints dropped d

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