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HAWKINS v. HAWKINS

No. 141PA91.

417 S.E.2d 447 (1992)

331 N.C. 743

Shannon Lee HAWKINS v. James F. HAWKINS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 25, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McElwee, McElwee, Cannon & Warden by William H. McElwee, III, North Wilkesboro, for plaintiff-appellee.

Rudisill & Brackett, P.A. by H. Kent Crowe, Hickory, for defendant-appellant.

EXUM, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Shannon Hawkins brought this action against her adoptive father, defendant James F. Hawkins, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for assault and battery. The uncontradicted evidence at trial tended to show that defendant sexually abused plaintiff from the time she was five and a half years old until she was fourteen years old. Plaintiff brought this action when she was eighteen years old.

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