Enterprise Reporter

Anya Schultz

Decades after landmark reforms, survivors face the same systemic failures that once cost lives.

A teacher at a  preschool in Mission Bay was arrested earlier this week for child sex crimes.

“There are very few American citizens who are not touched by this fairly directly,” says retired Judge Dana Leigh Marks.

Crying on the job, personal effects prepacked, more firings expected soon — and the cases just keep piling up.

Nine out of 10 domestic violence survivors represent themselves in family court, and their cases can drag on for years. 