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Jury awards California woman $2.3 billion in a sex abuse lawsuit involving the Mormon church

LOS ANGELES — 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 39-year-old Riverside woman, known in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, sued for damages against her stepfather, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and her mother, whom she said knew about the sexual abuse but did ...
The exterior of the Church of Latter-day Saints temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.

LOS ANGELES — 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 39-year-old Riverside woman, known in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, sued for damages against her stepfather, the Church

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