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FARRIS v. COMPTON

No. 94-SP-179.

652 A.2d 49 (1994)

Fredericka FARRIS, et al., Appellants, v. John W. COMPTON, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 29, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith A. Rosenberg, Washington, DC, for appellants.

John W. Karr, Washington, DC, for appellee.

Deborah A. Ellis, Sally F. Goldfarb, Lea Haber Kuck, and Anastasia Rockas, New York City, filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals on behalf of the NOW Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, et al., amici curiae.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, SCHWELB, Associate Judge, and MACK, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

On June 19, 1991, Sara Fellez, now forty-nine years old, and her sister, Fredericka Farris, now forty-six, filed suit in the United States District Court against their brother, Dr. John W. Compton, now fifty-three, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for repeated acts of incestuous sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated upon them by Compton during their childhood and youth in Washington, D.C. in the 1950's and 1960's.1...

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