I only ask because of the controversey over repressed memory syndrome. Melissa Gilbert was in a TV movie in the early nineties where she played Shari Karney (sp), an attorney who recalled being molested by her father starting at 6 months old. She didn't remember this until her 30's.
Needless to say, this revelation tore her family apart, and it was never revealed in the movie whether the molestation ever happened (the memory was recovered in therapy). In the movie, Karney teamed up with other individuals to lobby for removing the statue of limitations on reporting childhood abuse. She defends other women who claim to have been abused as infants.
I think there should be no statue of limitations on something so heinous. The thing is, how do you prove it in a court of law, especially 20 years after the fact? How did Karney know it was her father, and not an uncle or babysitter who abused her? At least in this case, there is video evidence and no doubt who’s guilty.
I know of a man who was involved in a divorce where his wife made a claim he molested his daughters.
He has been in a mental hospital for over 15 years. They will let him out just as soon as he acknowledges his "transgression". He refuses to confess to something he hasn't done.
He will probably be there for another 15 years.