A Riverside woman was awarded $2.28 billion Tuesday by a Riverside Superior Court jury after she was sexually abused by her stepfather for years, her attorneys announced.
A Riverside Superior Court jury awarded a woman $2.28 billion Tuesday for the sexual abuse she endured for years by her stepfather, her attorney announced.
The church denied wrongdoing but settled its part of the lawsuit for $1 million in December, and the woman’s mother settled for $200,000 in February,The stepfather admitted to molestation and rape in a sworn deposition testimony but didn’t appear at trial. According to the lawsuit, Doe attended Mormon Sunday school and other youth programs between 1987 and 1997. Her stepfather began using and manipulating church doctrines when Doe was around 5 years old to groom the child, according to the lawsuit.
Doe then told another bishop about the abuse, but said that she was shamed into silence by the other bishop and other counselors, who said she would go to prison and harm her family by disclosing the crime.
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