Darcy O'Brien
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Power to Hurt: Inside a Judge's Chambers : Sexual Assault, Corruption, and the Ultimate Reversal of Justice for Women
Darcy O'Brien
In September 1990, Vivian Forsythe, the twenty-four-year-old daughter of a wealthy Tennessee farmer, went to see Judge David W. Lanier about a job. She didn’t have a college degree, but as an A student in anthropology at her university, she considered herself well qualified for a secretarial position. Before Vivian left the judge’s chambers, he had raped her.
A riveting sexual drama whose events ripped a community and its families apart, Power to Hurt encompasses the landmark federal case against Judge Lanier, who was sentenced in April 1993 to…
