Episode 203: Child and Survivor Advocacy (with Dale Margolin Cecka)
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the Little Children Pod
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🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Professor Cecka is an advocate for women, children, and teens who have survived domestic abuse. Not only that, but she’s also a law professor, former Superior Court senior staff attorney, former Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, and the Director of Albany Law School’s Family Violence Litigation Clinic.
For this episode, I talked with Professor Cecka about her experience and expertise, and many related topics. I think you’ll enjoy this fascinating conversation as much as I did!
Links related to this episode:
Professor Cecka’s recent article in The Imprint: https://imprintnews.org/opinion/new-york-gov-kathy-hochul-can-fix-anonymous-reporting-problem/264606
“Inequity in Child Custody Legislation”: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/clr/vol20/iss1/8/Â
“Improper Delegation of Judicial Authority in Child Custody Cases: Finally Overturned”: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/law-faculty-publications/1425/Â
USA Today op-ed on the Diddy case: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/06/02/diddy-trial-cassie-macron-slapped-wife-domestic-violence/83924410007/Â
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains descriptions of violence against children and adult language and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:06.9 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:30.8 | Hi everyone and welcome to suffer the little children, the podcast giving voices back to the victims of child abuse murder and their families. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm your host, Lane, and this is episode 203, Child and Survivor Advocacy with Dale Marguline Cheka. |
| 0:43.1 | If you've listened to this show for any length of time, |
| 0:45.0 | and most likely, even if you haven't, |
| 0:48.1 | you know the U.S. legal system all too often fails domestic abuse survivors, |
| 0:50.2 | especially women, children, and adolescents. |
| 0:53.4 | My guest, Professor Dale Margalin Cheka, knows it all too well. |
| 0:58.6 | Professor Cheka is an advocate for women, children, and teens who have survived domestic abuse. |
| 1:04.5 | Not only that, but she's also a law professor, former Superior Court Senior Staff Attorney, |
| 1:10.3 | former Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, |
| 1:13.0 | and the Director of Albany Law School's Family Violence Litigation Clinic. |
| 1:17.7 | For this episode, I talked with Professor Cheka about her experience and expertise and many related topics. |
| 1:25.2 | I think you'll enjoy this fascinating conversation as much as I did. This is my |
| 1:30.1 | conversation with Professor Dale Marglin Cheka. My name is Dale Margalincheca. I'm a professor |
| 1:40.0 | at Albany Law School, and I run the Family Violence Litigation Clinic at the law school, which |
| 1:47.9 | if your listeners don't know, is an in-house clinical experience for third-year law students, |
| 1:54.1 | which means that we take live in-house clients and I supervise students, third-year students, on directly representing them. |
| 2:04.6 | So it's both a way for students, law students, to actually gain real experience during law school, |
| 2:12.1 | but also it provides a service to the community because we are filling legal needs that are not otherwise met. |
| 2:19.5 | So up in Albany in the capital region in New York is where I am right now running a clinic |
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