Don't have much time, I just read an article that I thought was really good. I read one in a german magazine about the same thing, but I can't exactly post it, nor would you guys be able to read it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20050627/ts_csm/omai This woman has an amazing amount of courage. In the german article, it went into even more detail, about how she had to go to several towns to find a court that would listen to her, and that her brother was only about 12.