Missouri Court of Appeals December 26, 2000, No. WD 58225 (Fischer ex rel. Scarborough v. Fischer)

HOWARD, Judge.

Benjamin Fischer, by and through his next friend Elisabeth White Scarborough, his mother (hereinafter “Elisabeth”), filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, seeking monetary damages for emotional harm resulting from *264alleged sexual abuse by his father, Mark Fischer (hereinafter “Mark”), and from his stepmother, Bonnie Fischer’s (hereinafter “Bonnie”)