Complex sentence: Simultaneously, Tate claimed his mother physically and abused him and that he was now suffering flashbacks and posttraumatic stress disorder, in a cased described "like a soap opera" by a television reporter.
Split into simpler sentences: Simultaneously, Tate claimed his mother physically and abused him and that he was now suffering flashbacks and posttraumatic stress disorder. This case was described as "like a soap opera" by a television reporter.