Fischer ex rel. Scarborough v. Fischer

HOWARD, Judge.

Benjamin Fischer, by and through his next friend Elisabeth White Scarborough, his mother (hereinafter “Elisabeth”), filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, seeking monetary damages for emotional harm resulting from *264alleged sexual abuse by his father, Mark Fischer (hereinafter “Mark”), and from his stepmother, Bonnie Fischer’s (hereinafter “Bonnie”) failure to keep him safe from harm and failure to provide him with good care. Mark had previously won a malicious prosecution judgment against Elisabeth, stemming from the allegations of sexual abuse. The…