The woman encourages others who are going through similar ordeals to continue to report abuse until someone acts.
A Southern California woman awarded what may be
The Southern California News Group does not identify victims of sexual assault in most cases, and it also is not identifying her stepfather and her mother, who was also a party to the lawsuit, because doing so could serve to identify the woman, her wife and their children. Some of the abuse took place after the stepfather became an elder at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lake Elsinore. The church has already paid the $1 million settlement it agreed to before the trial, Dordick said. And the woman’s mother has paid the agreed-upon $200,000, Dordick said.
The woman said she has received support from her attorneys, wife, children and the therapist she sees at least three times a week. The victim, then 13 years old, told a church bishop who instead of reporting the assaults, gathered the family and preached forgiveness, the lawsuit says.
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