Coping With Abuse

Our sex abuse lawyers in Miami, Florida are here to help you cope with child sexual abuse by taking civil action to hold perpetrators accountable.

MR. HERMAN: If your child was sexually abused, the most important thing to do is not ignore it. You have to deal with it. It's a horrible thing; it really is. But the worst thing you can do is to try to forget about it and tell you child to forget about it because they're not. You know, you may get to not talk about it now, but later in their lives it's going to come out in really bad and inconvenient ways. And so you take it head on. And what you do is you get help. You know, you go to professionals. You get your child therapy; you get your family therapy. You go to the police authorities, absolutely--it's a crime. It should be reported. And then you may want to take civil action. You may want to talk to someone who can help you through the civil process and hold the institution, hold the perpetrator accountable. Because something bad happened to you child and you want to validate that that bad thing, that it was a bad thing and you want to empower your child to get help.