A Richmond jury has dominated in favour of three girls who alleged they had been sexually abused whereas sufferers at Cumberland Hospital for Youngsters and Adolescents in Virginia, awarding them a complete of $300 million in damages, as per the information company AP.
Based on WTVR-TV, the jury awarded every lady $60 million in compensatory damages and $40 million in punitive damages.
The trial, held in Richmond Circuit Courtroom, is the primary in a sequence of lawsuits introduced by 46 former sufferers towards the hospital and Dr. Daniel Davidow, its longtime medical director. The ladies accused Davidow of inappropriately touching them throughout femoral pulse exams whereas beneath his care.
Kevin Biniazan, the lawyer representing the ladies, expressed the emotional significance of the decision, stating, “To have a bunch of strangers have a look at them, hearken to them, and inform them they consider them… it broke them down in tears instantly. It broke us all down in tears.”
Davidow, nonetheless, has denied all allegations. His lawyer, Bob Donnelly, claimed in court docket that the femoral pulse examination, an ordinary medical process from the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies, was used. Donnelly acknowledged, “Davidow firmly denies the allegations of sexual assault.”
Earlier this 12 months, Davidow was acquitted of felony intercourse abuse expenses involving two different former sufferers after a prison trial in April. Regardless of his acquittal, civil lawsuits towards him and the hospital proceed, with the subsequent trial scheduled for March.
