A jury in Georgia has awarded $1 billion to a young black woman who was raped by an armed security guard when she was 14.
Jurors in Clayton County, Ga., on Tuesday awarded $1 billion in damages to Hope Cheston, now 20, in a civil lawsuit against the company that employed the man who raped her outside an apartment complex.
Cheston’s attorney, L. Chris Stewart, called it a “record” amount. “Juries are saying no to sexual assault and holding companies accountable!” he wrote on Twitter.
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