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Gonzalez v. Boullon

1994

Legal

Type of Case:

Florida

Location (State or Country): 

Civil

Civil or Criminal: 

Family member, Witness of event, Prior disclosure

Form of Corroboration: 

Description:

Gonzalez v. Boullon is a 1994 case from florida in which Dr. Nina Gonzalez successfully brought a civil suit against her stepfather, Luis Boullon, in Florida. “While a premed at Holy Cross College in Worcester [Massachusetts], she began to remember what she recalled as nighttime visits from her stepfather….Testimony of her little cousin and her stepmother who she told of the ‘massages’ years before also weighed with the jurors.” Gonzalez’s older brother, Ricardo, testified he had witnessed two instances of abuse. These witness and confidante testimonies corobroate Gonzalez's recovered memories (Lantigua).

Source

1. Lantigua, J. (1994, February 14). $1 Million Award Over Repressed Memory of Abuse. Miami Herald.

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