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We are writing to inform you that two organizations that advocate for the prevention of child sexual abuse and for the support of survivors of child sexual abuse – Vertigo Charitable Foundation, LLC (vcfhelp.org) and Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (netgrace.org) -- have developed a confidential online survey that seeks feedback from abuse survivors to help measure the quality of legal representation they received when pursuing a civil cause of action against sexual offenders and/or the institutions that wrongfully protected them.

 

The purpose of the survey is to obtain reliable data to be used in determining whether survivors are receiving competent legal representation in their efforts to hold their perpetrators accountable under the civil justice system. We will publicize the results of the survey, which we then intend to incorporate into a comprehensive assessment of attorney performances that will contribute to making the justice system more transparent and protective of the fundamental legal rights of survivors.

 

If you filed a civil cause of action as described above, or if you consulted an attorney about filing such an action even if you did not actually file a claim, please complete the short survey.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

The confidential online survey can be accessed at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/survivorlegalrepsurvey.

 

Valerie Gibson, VCF Founder

Neil Jaffee, VCF Legal Counsel

Baysle “Boz” Tchividjian, GRACE Founder, Prof.of Law, Liberty University School of Law

 

 

 

 

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Dear Valerie:

I went to the link, started to fill it out, but it doesn't seem geared towards those only made a legal inquiry when considering a case (like me). So I didn't finish.  

I'm not sure if those, like me, choose to abandon the idea based on the first lawyer contact. Now, as an adult, I know that I might have a lawyer who knew little about the law (and in a time when there was barely a diagnosis of PTSD for child abuse never mind the words trauma-informed). But, as a woman in my early 20's who was considering legal action, even before therapy, one phone call was enough to make me abandon the idea because it was not a positive or even neutral experience.

Cissy 

Thanks for your reply, Cissy. You are correct that the survey is designed
to measure the quality of legal representation actually received by
survivors. Therefore, the questions in the survey do not address matters
in which survivors, after contacting a lawyer, decided not to proceed with
legal action. But your reply raises a good point -- that there exists the
need to do another survey to assess the reasons survivors decided not to
take any legal action against their perpetrators.

We do intend to publish the results of our survey and we hope you will find
them interesting and informative. Take care. Neil Jaffee & Valerie Gibson

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:12 AM, ACEsConnection <
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