Paul A. Mones

Paul Mones is one of the leading children rights attorney’s in the nation. He has focused his work on advocating for abused children. He pioneered the battered child syndrome defense used in cases of battered and abused children who kill their parents. His book, WHEN A CHILD KILLS: ABUSED CHILDREN WHO KILL THEIR PARENTS (1991) is considered a landmark book in the field.

He has also been at the forefront representing survivors of sexual abuse by litigating on their behalf against institutions like the Boy Scouts of America and the Catholic Church where children have been sexually abused. In Portland, Oregon in 2010, he won the largest sexual abuse verdict in history against the Boy Scouts of America. In addition to his trial work, Paul also lectures nationally and internationally on child sexual abuse and other critical youth issues to numerous professional organizations. He is admitted to the bar in Oregon and California but works on child abuse and adolescent violence throughout the United States.

In August of 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno presented him the American Bar Association's Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award "awarded to one attorney each year for his or her outstanding contributions...to the rights of children and youth."

Mr. Mones is also the author of STALKING JUSTICE, a true crime book concerned the first U.S. serial murder-rape case solved by D.N.A. fingerprinting (Pocketbooks/Simon and Schuster in July, 1995) He also contributed a chapter entitled, “Talking to Your Children About Terrorism,” in FEAR LESS by Gavin de Becker. In addition Mr. Mones has been an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and USA Today and has appeared on Larry King, the Today Show, Oprah Winfrey, 60 Minutes, Frontlines as well as other television and radio news shows throughout the nation.