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Maggie Cruz always knew she was the product of rape.
Her mother, now 66 and living in a disability care facility in upstate New York, was developmentally delayed from birth, with an IQ that constituted “profound mental retardation,” according to a suit Cruz just filed. She could not form words or be toilet-trained and needed diapers. The very fact that she had become pregnant and given birth to Cruz indicated that something terrible had happened.
But Cruz did not know how terrible—until now.