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Podcast: Slam the Gavel
Episode: Marita Murphy, Australia, Challenges The Statute Of Limitations Regarding Child Sexual Abuse
Description: Slam the Gavel welcomes Marita Murphy from Bellarat, Melbourne, Australia on to the show. Marita shared her story of being a sexual abuse victim in Melbourne at the age of seven back in 1968 by two young men twice her age.
  Marita explained that her mother had fallen ill and went to live with friends of the family. That is when the incident occurred. However, the adults Marita was staying with at the time found out because after a week to ten days, she spoke up about these strangers at the dinner table.
  For over four decades, Marita cope...