When entrusting your children to a youth sports organization, you expect them to be safe. However, if your child reports behavior from an adult in charge that sounds like sexual abuse, it can be beyond your worst nightmare. To protect your child’s rights, consider seeking the help of our child sexual assault lawyer at The Cifarelli Law Firm.

Our child sexual abuse attorneys can advise you on the steps to take. Through our track record of success helping other families in situations like yours, we can help you understand your options. We always fight to protect your rights.

Reporting Sexual Abuse to Police

Although it’s difficult, you should always remain calm when your child reports any type of sexual abuse from a baseball coach or official. It’s important to listen to the child and offer support. 

Report the abuse to law enforcement immediately. Let the police conduct the investigation and follow their advice for avoiding contact between your family and the suspected abuser. Now is not the time to take the law into your own hands.

Options After Reporting the Sexual Assault of a Child

While law enforcement is investigating the case, your options as a parent include reaching out to our child sexual abuse lawyers. We can give you advice on what to do. 

Seeking Support and Emotional Help

Because of our experience representing victims of child sexual assaults, we can help you find resources for your child and your family. Whether you want help from a victim advocate’s group, a therapist, or another option, trust us to point you in the right direction.

When you hire our child sexual assault lawyer, we will support you emotionally throughout the process. We understand the challenges of living through child sexual abuse cases and work hard to give you the resources and attention you need.

Seeking a Civil Award

While the police will determine the appropriate criminal charges for the abuser, you are well within your rights to take certain proactive steps. 

When the abuse occurs as part of your child playing in a youth baseball league, you may have the right to seek a financial award from the organization. Any filing of criminal charges against the abuser does not affect your ability to seek restitution in a civil lawsuit.

Some clients of our child sexual assault lawyer wonder whether seeking a financial judgment against the organization is appropriate. It’s important to remember that an injury lawsuit in a case like this can help prevent other victims from going through something similar. 

Criminal charges will focus only on the person who performed the acts that led to your child’s sexual assault. Filing a lawsuit with the help of our child sexual assault lawyer can hold the organization and its leaders responsible for their actions — or inactions — that led to the abuse. A financial award against the organization could inspire them to make the necessary changes to protect kids fully.

You Can Trust Our Legal Team

When your child suffers sexual abuse at the hands of a youth baseball coach or official, it can flip your entire world upside down. After reporting the abuse to the police, you may have no idea how to proceed. 

At The Cifarelli Law Firm, we have more than five decades of collective experience helping families and are ready to help you through this difficult time. We also protect the rights of your child and your family to seek damages. For a free consultation, call a child sexual assault lawyer today at 949-409-6324.