The courts agree that a person’s being in a coma stops the clock on the statute of limitations, but they do not agree about whether repressed memories also stop the clock. The resolution rests on the scientific merit of the claim that traumatic memories can be repressed or dissociated. If they can be, then civil and criminal actions can be brought within a certain time after the plaintiff remembers being molested rather than after the molestation itself. This is why, in such cases, the plaintiff’s attorneys bring in the biggest clinical guns they can find to testify about the existence of
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