How Legal Strategy, Compassion, and Accountability Intersect in Sexual Abuse Cases

About Nathaniel Foote: Nate is a crime victim, personal injury, and wrongful death lawyer who litigates cases on behalf of assault, murder, rape, and child sexual abuse victims. Nate has represented survivors in lawsuits against churches, schools, hotels, bars, and other institutions that enable sexual and violent crime. Nate also represents families in wrongful death cases and those who have been catastrophically injured due to another's carelessness. Based in Pennsylvania, Nate is licensed in Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Pennsylvania, and takes cases across the US.

In the last few years, Nate served as co-counsel in several trials that resulted in significant jury verdicts for crime victims, including a $1.53 million verdict in a child sex abuse case and a $1.75 million verdict in a wrongful death/negligent security homicide case. Nate was co-counsel in a case that resulted in an $88 million verdict for a child sex abuse victim, one of the largest such verdicts in the United States.

In this episode, Ben, Jennifer, and Nathaniel Foote discuss:

• Navigating the civil justice system in cases of child sexual abuse
• Understanding how institutions contribute to abuse and legal accountability
• Challenges attorneys face when building cases involving trauma and historic evidence
• Evolving societal awareness of grooming, trusted-authority abuse, and legal trends

Key Takeaways:

• Survivors often seek justice, answers, and reclaimed power far more than financial compensation, and the civil system allows them to uncover what institutions knew and failed to stop.
• Historic abuse cases are difficult because evidence, records, and insurance may no longer exist, forcing attorneys to investigate decades-old institutional failures under active resistance from defense counsel.
• Civil cases frequently uncover information missed or overlooked in criminal investigations, and can even reignite stalled prosecutions when new evidence surfaces through discovery.
• Many survivors are still turned away because intra-familial abuse rarely provides a viable pool of recovery, making honest, difficult “no” conversations a painful but necessary part of the work. 

"Almost nobody calls us and says, ‘You know, I want money.’ They want, you know, a sense of justice. They want answers. They want to…take back the power that was taken from them." — Nathaniel Foote

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