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National | Man who claimed abuse by MMNL clinic wins jury award | Bob Jones

On March 14, 1994, John Scott Rogers's world collapsed. That was the day he pulled his car over and called a toll-free number he'd heard on Christian radio. He'd been listening to a show about childhood sexual abuse.

One thing in particular made him stop his car that day: the fact that adults who had been abused as children were themselves much more likely to abuse their own children. Mr. Rogers had been abused. Now that he had two small children of his own, he was concerned. He wanted counseling and prayer. He wanted someone to reassure him that he wasn't bound to repeat the cycle of abuse.

What he got instead was a visit from the department of social services. He got handcuffed. He got an order not to be alone with his children. And most of all, he says, he got a bad name.