Legal Opinion
Farris v. Compton
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 29, 1994No. 94-SP-179PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
On June 19, 1991, Sara Fellez, now forty-nine years old, and her sister, Fredericka Farris, now forty-six, filed suit in the United States District Court against their brother, Dr. John W. Compton, now fifty-three, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for repeated acts of incestuous sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated upon them by Compton during their childhood and youth in Washington, D.C. in the 1950’s and 1960’s. 1 The women claimed that each of them had repressed her recollection of the abuse for more than twenty years, and contended that because of this…
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