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Sex Offender Ordered to Pay Victim $19M

By Corey Rayburnyung

A sex offender has been ordered to pay more than $19 million to a woman who accused him of sexually abusing her as a child. From the Palm Beach Post:  A jury Wednesday ordered a registered sex offender to pay more than $19 million to a woman who says he repeatedly sexually abused her as a child.The woman's attorney, Michael Dolce, said Timothy Crowe of Miami Beach molested her in Jupiter an estimated 400 times when she was between three and nine years old. Dolce said the jury verdict's was mainly compensatory damages to help pay for significant medical treatment the woman has since needed."You can imagine the psychological and psychiatric damage runs very, very deep," Dolce said. "She still is suffering severely."Realistically, Dolce expects only to recover a portion of the verdict from Crowe...continue to full post

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