THE DENVER
POST
Friday May 18, 1990
EDWARD RODGERS, the ex-FBI agent who lost a $2.3 million judgment
in Denver district court this week, must have been astonished
when two of his grown-up daughters sued him for molesting
them as children.
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GAZETTE TELEGRAPH SECTION B
Thursday,
May 17, 1990
Sisters claiming abuse win $2.3 million Lawsuit was act of love,
women say. Two believe family now can face reality
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Monday, May 28, 1990
Giving the gift of going public
FOR YEARS, EDWARD RODGERS of Denver was a national specialist
on child abuse. A lawyer, FBI agent and former child abuse
investigator
for the Denver district attorney’s office, he was instrumental
in developing incest and child abuse statues. He went on the
lecture circuit. he sat on various panels about child abuse.
He wrote articles about abusers for various journals.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Friday May 18, 1990
Daughters win sex-abuse case against father
In a precedent-setting case, a Belmont woman this week won
a multimillion-dollar jury award against her father for sexual
and physical abuse. In an interview yesterday, she said she
filed the suit because she wanted to let a "little girl" from
beverly know that not everyone gets away with child abuse.
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THE DENVER POST - Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
May 17, 1990
Sisters win sex lawsuit vs. dad $2.3 million given for
years of abuse
Two daughters of former state and federal law enforcement official
Edward Rodgers were awarded $2.319,400 yesterday, after a Denver
judge and jury found that the women suffered years of abuse
at the hands of their father.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Sunday, March 26, 1989
Ruling in Beverly assault case leaves scars
BEVERLY - The case seemed straightforward. Michael R. Ferguson,
a 41-year-old former shop teacher, had pleaded guilty to sexually
assaulting his neighbor’s daughter on two occasions last
year when she had spent the night at his house with his daughter.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS - CIVIL LAWSUITS
Sunday. March 2, 1997
Sharon Simone and her sister were awarded $2.3 million
(with interest) by a Denver jury for sexual abuse committed
by
their father. It took an act
of Congress
to
garnishee their father’s federal pension. Abuse victims found justice
in court. Dad’s federal pension open to garnishment after new law in
1994
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
March 28, 1989
(Two days following "Ruling in Beverly assault
case leaves scars"
Man, 23, is jailed for mailbox blast
A federal judge sentenced a 23-year-old Framingham man
to 29 months in jail for illegally transporting explosives
and using
them to blow up a newspaper vending machine in Needham
last summer. Jonathan Tefft will serve the sentence concurrently
with a state sentence he is now serving. Tefft was also
sentenced
to two years of supervised release yesterday by US District
Judge Walter J. Skinner, who called him ‘not a terrorist,’
but a person with ‘some level of personal problems." Tefft
was indicted in August on the charges.
THE DENVER POST - Voice of
the Rocky Mountain Empire Final Edition
May 21, 1990
Adults suing parents for abuse
In Denver and elsewhere, child victims put an end to years of
silence
WASHINGTON - When a Denver jury last week awarded two middle-aged
sisters $2.3 million to compensate for years of physical and
sexual abuse by their father, the case made front-page news.
The story underscored a changing fact of life: Until recently,
relatively few adults have taken legal action against parents
who abused them as children.
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES - LETTERS
TO EDITOR
Tuesday, January 27, 1998
Recalling the facts about traumatic amnesia
Suzanne Fields’ column is replete with misinformation
apparently culled out of a False Memory Syndrome foundation
press kit (“The inexact science of the human mind,”
Op-Ed, Jan. 19).
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The Denver Post—Voice
of the Rocky Mountain News
October 27, 1994
Law lets abuse victims seek redress in
pensions
A former Colorado woman who won a landmark $2.3 million judgment
against her abusive father is celebrating a new law allowing
her and other victims to collect compensation from their abusers’
federal pensions.
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The Enterprise- Brockton, Massachusetts
Friday, April 22, 1994
For abused, the healing comes from the
telling
BROCKTON – Sharon Simone’s father was an FBI agent
and a nationally recognized authority on child abuse prevention
and intervention. At home, however, he physically abused her
three brothers and beat and sexually abused Simone and her
three sisters over a period of 30 years. “You never
knew what was going to happen,” Simone said. “I
don’t ever remember being relaxes in the family.”
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ROCKY MOUNTAIIN NEWS - LETTERS
Sunday March 23, 1997
Many people deserve credit for helping
pass child accountability act of ’94
Rocky Mount News reported Sue Lindsay has done a wonderfully
thorough job describing the difficulties crime victims have
in recovering the damages awarded them in civil courts (March
2 article, “Abuse victims found justice in court”).
Getting congress to hold perpetrators accountable by attaching
their federal pensions t satisfy court-awarded damages is
an important step. The Child Abuse Accountability Act of 1994
addresses the wrong done to crime victims who have won their
case in court only to lose once again to the perpetrator who
refuses to honor the court’s judgment and pay up.
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GLOUCESTER DAILY TIMES
February 11, 2000
Balance power: Work to ‘become
the change you want to see.’
Last week, I was tempted out into the cold of the night –
twice – to attend two community evens, a book reading
and a lecture. First, I heard Greg Gibson speak about his
book, “Goneboy: A Walkabout.” Then I heard Sharon
Simone speak about her life, the story of a little girl who
had been sexually abused by her father.
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