McCollum v. D'Arcy

This is an interlocutory appeal from a ruling of the Superior Court (Mohl, J.) denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss in a civil sexual assault case. We affirm and remand.

The plaintiff, Jill McCollum, now fifty years old, is the natural daughter of defendants George and Elizabeth D’Arcy, now in their eighties. She alleges that the defendants repeatedly engaged in forced sexual contact with her from early childhood until 1956, when *286she was thirteen years old. The plaintiff also alleges that the defendants abused her verbally, including threats by her mother to lock her in a closet if she…