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muriel_volestrangler

(101,300 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 06:51 PM Jun 2017

Jury awards televangelist's granddaughter $2 million in Trinity Broadcasting molestation scandal

"Carra Crouch said that in 2006, at age 13, she was sexually assaulted in an Atlanta hotel room by a 30-year-old Trinity employee. When she told her grandmother, Jan Crouch blamed her for what happened and never reported the incident to police, Carra Crouch alleged.

"On Monday, the jury awarded Carra Crouch $2 million for her years of emotional trauma and future suffering, finding that Jan Crouch’s response caused outrageous harm.

"“This is important. Carra Crouch needed someone to say, ‘It’s not your fault,’ ” said her attorney, David Keesling. “She was never able to come to grips with the fact she was not to blame.”

"Michael King, an attorney for Trinity, said the nonprofit organization was “inclined to appeal.”"

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-trinity-broadcasting-trial-20170605-story.html

Jan Crouch and her husband both died while this worked its way through the legal system, so its the business which is paying up.

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Jury awards televangelist's granddaughter $2 million in Trinity Broadcasting molestation scandal (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2017 OP
It'd be nice if this judgment bankrupted the "business." trotsky Jun 2017 #1

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
1. It'd be nice if this judgment bankrupted the "business."
Wed Jun 7, 2017, 09:29 AM
Jun 2017

But I'm sure they raked in 100x that while they were alive.

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