M.M. v. M.P.S.

Appellants challenge an order dismissing their complaint with prejudice. Appellants filed an action against appellees to recover damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress and conspiracy. The complaint alleged that appellants suffered severe emotional distress when M.P.S. told them that he had sexually abused their daughter and that his wife had supplied her with illegal drugs from the time she was eight years old, throughout her childhood, until she was 23 years old.1 Appellants sought recovery solely for their own distress; 2 but the trial court dismissed their complaint for…