J.A.W. v. Roberts

RUCKER, Judge.

In this summary judgment action we are called upon to determine whether a person may be held civilly liable to the victim of child sexual abuse when he or she knows of the abuse but fails to report it to the authorities.

*806This case involves the tragic story of now twenty-three-year old JW. who suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his foster father, Edward Bramblett. JW. was born April 17, 1970 and after being abandoned by his birth mother, lived with his father and paternal grandmother. After his father's death in 1973, J.W. was adopted by his grandmother. In 1978,…