A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (1992)

Directed by

Linda Otto

Genre

trial film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother is convinced her ex-husband is abusing their young daughter. When police clear him and a judge orders unsupervised visits, she hides the child instead. She is jailed for contempt and stays imprisoned for over two years until Congress passes a law to free her.

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What happens

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story is a 1992 television film directed by Linda Otto. Starring Bonnie Bedelia in the title role, the courtroom drama—which has also been released as Shattered Silence—chronicles the story behind the Elizabeth Morgan case, in which a woman suspected her ex-husband was sexually abusing their three year old daughter. After Morgan's ex-husband was cleared of suspicion by police, and a judge ordered unsupervised visitation rights be returned to him, Morgan refused to reveal the location of the child. Morgan was subsequently held in contempt of court and imprisoned for more than two years, until an act of Congress was written and passed specifically to free her. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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