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Who is correct on this 'Jessica's Law' issue ?

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A Massachusetts trial lawyer, also serving as chairman of the State House Ethics Committee, is under fire for advocating "ripping apart" child sexual abuse victims on the witness stand. Massachusetts State Representative James Fagan was speaking against "Jessica's Law," a proposal already on the books in many other states that imposes a mandatory minimum sentence for those convicted of raping children. He described how he, as a defense attorney, would treat a six-year-old rape victim on the witness stand. "And I'm [going to] rip them apart. I'm [going to] make sure that the rest of their life is ruined -- that when they're eight years old, they throw up; when their 12 years old, they won't sleep; when they're 19 years old, they'll have nightmares. And they'll never have a relationship with anybody," stated Fagan. Fagan argued that "...[w]hen you're in court and you're defending somebody's liberty and you're facing a mandatory sentence of those draconian proportions, you have to do every single thing you can do on behalf of your client..." That, he said, is the oath and obligation of a trial lawyer. But Mat Staver, dean of the LU School of Law, strongly disagrees. "Certainly, you can successfully challenge the credibility of a witness without destroying their life," he contends. And no respectable attorney should have that attitude toward a child victim, says Staver. "They've already been victimized -- and this defense attorney says it's his duty to actually victimize them, not only on the witness stand, but to victimize them for the rest of their lives - Who's correct on this issue, Dean Staver or Rep. Fagan ?