RICHMOND, Va. — A jury has dominated in favor of three ladies who alleged they had been sexually abused whereas sufferers at a Virginia youngsters’s hospital, awarding them a complete of $300 million in damages.
The jury in Richmond Circuit Courtroom on Friday awarded every girl $60 million in compensatory damages and $40 million in punitive damages, WTVR-TV reported.
A complete of 46 former sufferers sued the Cumberland Hospital for Youngsters and Adolescents in New Kent, which treats weak youngsters, and Dr. Daniel Davidow, the hospital’s longtime medical director. On this first trial, the three former sufferers alleged that Davidow inappropriately touched them throughout femoral pulse exams.
“To have a gaggle of individuals — a gaggle of strangers — to take a look at them, to hearken to them, to inform them that they consider them, that they consider in them, it broke them down, it broke them down in tears instantly,” mentioned Kevin Biniazan, the ladies’s lawyer. ”It brook us all down in tears.”
Davidow’s lawyer, Bob Donnelly, instructed the jury throughout opening statements that Davidow “unequivocally denies” the sexual assault allegations. Donnelly mentioned the femoral pulse examination performed by Davidow dates again to the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies and is a “customary examination.”
Davidow was acquitted of felony intercourse abuse expenses in opposition to two different former sufferers after a prison trial in April.
The subsequent civil trial is scheduled in March.
