Multiple Personality Disorder
In the autumn of 1990, reporters nationwide gathered in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They hoped to meet Emily, Franny, John, Ginger, Eleanor, Leona, Frank, Beth, Sam, and 34 other personalities occupying the mind of Sarah, an alleged rape victim. Oshkosh prosecutors argued that the accused rapist exploited Sarah's mental disorder by coaxing one of her personalities, a flirtatious 20-year-old named Jennifer, into having sex with him. A jury convicted the man of second-degree sexual assault. The verdict was later overturned.1