Attorneys say a Southern California jury has awarded $2.28 billion to a woman who was molested for years by her stepfather. The panel in Riverside County awarded damages on Tuesday to a woman who said that she was sexually assaulted by her stepfather from the age of 5 until she was 14, beginning in the 1980s. The stepfather later spent three years in prison for committing lewd acts on a child. The suit also named the woman's mother and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, alleging that officials there repeatedly failed to report the abuse to law enforcement. While denying wrongdoing, the church last year settled its part of the case for $1 million.
