![]() She had recently graduated from law school and was working for the ACLU Women’s Rights Project in 2004 when she represented Jessica.īettinger-Lopez wrote a blog post for the Council on Foreign Relations in July, stating that although the U.S. She's also grateful for her legal team, especially Bettinger-Lopez, currently a professor of clinical legal education and director of the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. “I’m studying international human rights law for one semester to make sure my expertise is as sharp as it can possibly be, and I’m starting to work on my TED Talk, as I’d like to continue promoting the film and teaching people how to use their voice and make them feel like it’s within their reach," said Lenahan. Human Rights Network, among other groups, she told NBC News she still has lots more work to do. Although Jessica has made some strides, even winning awards from the U.S. She added that she is proud of Jessica, who continues to fight for justice and against her fatigue. “Different family members need to step away to take care of themselves, and we thought that was a very powerful part in the story.” ![]() “Everyone is in a different place in their lives,” explained Maguire. The symptoms of post-traumatic stress took a toll on their relationship - and to this day they remain emotionally and physically distant. Jesse was 13 when his sisters were killed, and he mentions in the documentary that when the girls died, so did the nurturing side of his mom that he loved so much. It’s a problem we have to look at from a public health perspective as well.” ![]() “The skeleton was Jessica’s case, but the other part was her relationship with her son, Jesse,” Maguire said. Though it took nearly a decade to make the film, Maguire said they learned a lot about the judicial process and the lasting effects of domestic violence on families. Maguire, an Emmy-nominated Latina filmmaker, said they first saw Lenahan speak at an event. was responsible for human rights violations against Jessica and her three deceased children. In a 2011 landmark decision, the commission found the U.S. With this case, Lenahan became the first individual domestic violence survivor to bring a case against the United States before an international board. government with the help of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). When it was ruled, 7-2, that she had no constitutional right to the enforcement of her restraining order and that police departments could not be sued for improper enforcement of such orders, Lenahan and her legal team, including the ACLU and Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute, filed a case against the U.S. Jessica Lenahan, 52, the subject of the new documentary HOME TRUTH, and her four children. She had filed a lawsuit against the Castle Rock police for failing to enforce her restraining order right after the incident, and in 2004, her case reached the U.S. At that point, Lenahan, who is of Native American and Latino descent, had already been fighting her case for nine years and had endured a long and emotionally strenuous journey. ![]() The directors of the film heard about Lenahan's story from someone at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in 2008.
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