Her death is scheduled a little over a month before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to end the federal death penalty. she says. It was after those comments aired that Justin began avoiding her back at home, Judy claimed. Shaughnessy testified about the sexual abuse but acknowledged she never filed a formal police complaint, in part because she said Kleiner had threatened her and the children. Judge Judy looked almost unrecognisable from her early days on her hit-courtroom TV show as she stepped out with her husband Jerry Sheindlin in Los Angeles. Read about our approach to external linking. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. If that is the verdict, she would undergo a mental evaluation and a judge would decide if she will be released or committed to a mental institution. About a week before Christmas in 2004, Lisa Montgomery, a 36-year-old mother of four, drove from her home in Kansas to Missouri, ostensibly to buy a rat terrier puppy from a woman shed met at a dog show earlier that year. She made nightly trips to a bar, leaving the girls with babysitters who raped Diane, whose sole purpose in life was to protect her little sister. Victims of severe childhood sexual abuse can overcome their trauma with certain factors, Porterfield said, such as the presence of a nurturing adult who provides love and connects them to resources to promote healing. Everyone left the room except for Spencer, Trina and Liesel. Judy Shaughnessy, the mother of 39-year-old Lisa Montgomery, testified Friday she found then-husband Jack Kleiner having sex with Montgomery in 1984, when Montgomery would have been about 16. After The Nanny, Shaughnessy appeared on shows like The Mentalist, Mad Men, and Hannah Montana, with especially plum roles on series like Saints & Sinners and the animated series Stanley.