Are you a legal adult now, MastaChronic? How many years has that been since you were treated in that manner?

I think statutes of limitation on injury to a child may vary slightly depending on where you are, and it would be longshot no matter what. To file a complaint/take plaintiff's action now would require that you have documentation, pictures, medical records, witnesses, witness testimony, and probably experts. All that's just to make a case, assuming you're still within your state's statutory limit. And you would have to have money, lots of it, to get an attorney to pursue that case. Once it was over, assuming you could even get anywhere in the first place with such an action, I suspect you'd end up feeling as if you'd been dragged yet again on your ass in a painful way by a new set of people.

Would it be possible to take the time and energy and money you might have directed toward that effort and use it to get some constructive help in addressing any lingering issues you have now as a result of that appalling treatment you received as a young child? That might be the more therapeutic route. Don't get me wrong. A creature who treats a child like that ought to be sued and sued painfully. And dragged on her ass by others. And never allowed near children again. But the time to redress such abuse is soon after it happens, not years later.