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Trey's Law—Protecting the Victims of Child Sex Abuse

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Look, an abuser has every incentive in the world to try to cover it up, to try to hide it, to want an NDA to not have truth and transparency and so we are seeing NDAs demanded by abusers in exchange for compensation. And The way our legal system works is typically, if a victim has a lawyer, that lawyer will usually be compensated on a contingency basis. where they receive a portion of whatever financial recovery there is. So the lawyer has every incentive in the world to try to reach a deal, to try to reach … (19:22–19:32)

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