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So, imagine you are five years old and have been brave enough to confess to your mother that your daddy rapes you every night, although he's said he'll kill you for telling.
Now imagine that, as a practice run, you have to go to a courtroom that seems big as a football stadium. You have to answer questions a prosecutor asks you.
And then you have to answer questions fired at you by a stranger, a lawyer who makes you so confused that you cry and ask him to stop.
And because every defendant has the right to face his accuser, you have to do all this while your daddy is staring you down just six feet away.
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