that I don't believe any allegations of child sex abuse, let me make it clear, that I've seen the real ones. A former girlfriend's daughter was molested on and off by her uncle for over a decade, and the truth only came out when she had another child and the older daughter became concerned that it might happen to her. I've had at least half a dozen clients who were molested as children. I've had dozens of clients whose children were clearly molested by a boyfriend or another parent or step-parent. One where the mother (who had a IQ of about 60 and only had visitation with children), sat there and watched while her boyfriend raped three of children. I know of another where a mother put her children in pornographic films to pay for crack (I didn't represent her on that case, but I had on others). In one case I represented a person who clearly molested children, although I got out before the end of it.

I've also been involved in at least six other cases like Jack's though. Some of them ended up like Jack's, others ended up with a parent never being able to see their children again. There is one fellow who ended up in jail a few years after the family court case when the children got older and the DA decided they could testify. These are tough cases to deal with, and a lot times I wish were doing something else with my life. I'm an atheist, so I don't get to say, "Oh, it's for a reason", or "Everything balances out in the end.", because honestly I don't think that it does.

I don't believe that there is any universal justice. Sometimes bad shit happens, and there is no payback down the road. Innocent children who are born with horrible spinal deformities. They suffer and then die. The wedding party of 70 in Afghanistan that got mistaken for an Al-Qaeda gathering and were bombed out of existence - no justice, just death. The uncle who molested my girlfriend's daughter - never taken to court. The men who have raped female friends and relatives - got away clean. No balancing of the scales on the other side. And sometimes innocent people end up in prison. And sometimes innocent people end up getting executed. Sometimes that's just the way it works.

And then occasionally, I get a case like Jack's where it worked it right in my eyes.