What is the effect of not speaking to your parents for some years after the death of your father?

The effect on the victims is analogous. The victim in Hockley v. Riley said nothing to her parents for some years. In 1999, when she was pregnant, she told her mother. Her relationship with her mother was “next to nil’. They had not spoken for the year-and-a-half prior to the mother being told of the abuse. This is not dissimilar from the experience of C.S., who had little relationship with her father, and who revealed the assaults after a significant event, his death and the phone call from the defendant.

The victim in Hockley v. Riley did not like school. She was suspended several times for fighting. If she did not like what the teacher said, she left. She quit school, not as C.S. did at fourteen, but at seventeen.

Unlike C.S., the victim in Hockley v. Riley, is married. At the time of the trial, she and her husband had two children. On the other hand, the evidence of her husband suggested that she had problems with relationships, albeit ones that reflected her life circumstance. He testified that his wife did not trust anyone with her children. Their relationship was described by him as “more like roommates”. They slept in separate bedrooms. The judge concluded that she had been “detrimentally affected personally and in her relationship with her friends, parents and husband”.