abuse When One Attorney Represents the Child Who Accuses and the Infant of the Accused, New York’s Conflict Rules Fail the Youngest Client Picture a teenage girl who finds the courage to tell her lawyer that the man in her home sexually abused her. Now picture that the very same lawyer also represents that man’s infant daughter. One advocate. Two children. And the older child’s hardest truth is a direct blow to the only parent the baby has. This is not a scenario I had to invent to make a point.