Justice is a Multilayered Journey

Res Ipsa Nota - abuse in the context of real life scenarios

I took the phone call while I was in a meeting, stepping out into the hallway of the hotel conference area. I hurried down the nearby stairs to an open area between conference spaces.

“Hello?"

“Get Boz on the phone!”

“Excuse me?”

“Get Boz on the phone!”

Read more about defamation actions in cases of abuse: “You Can’t Handle the Truth”

The attorney, his client an alleged clergy sexual abuser, was ordering me around like I was a child.

The Tennessean religion writer Liam Adams describes the court’s recent opinion in Hunt v. SBC and my client coming forward publicly for the first time.

For the next eleven minutes, I was yelled at, called a liar multiple times, threatened with untrue accusations being made to the court about my handling of the case, and told that it was now personal and he’d never let us go. My responses included statements like, “You are not my boss” and “You are not my father” and requests to act becoming of an officer of the court.

Read more about the background of this case and the judge’s ultimate ruling in dismissing almost all of Hunt’s claims: “Justice for a Survivor in the SBC”

I added mutliple times, “Do not speak to me that way” and