NATION : Daughters Win Suit Against Dad
The adult daughters of a child abuse expert were awarded $1.2 million each from a jury that found the former FBI agent and prosecutor had sexually abused and beaten them when they were growing up.
Susan Hammond, 44, and her sister, Sharon Simone, 45, called their lawsuit “a terrible act of love” to make Edward Rodgers, 72, accountable for years of abuse.
“I feel really good that I’ve gone public with this,” Hammond said after the verdict Wednesday.
“My father did shameful and horrible things to me and my brothers and sisters. I don’t believe he is a shameful and horrible man, but he has to be held accountable.”
The women sued their father, a former FBI agent, chief investigator for the El Paso County, Colo., district attorney’s office and a nationally known child abuse expert, for abuses suffered from 1944 through 1965.
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