JAPAN
Japan Today
Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 07:15 JST
NARA — A 55-year-old pastor has paid 5 million yen in compensation to a 33-year-old woman for childhood sexual abuse in accordance with a court ruling, her lawyer said Friday.
The Osaka High Court ordered the pastor in March to pay the money to the woman, overturning a lower court rejection of the compensation. The high court ruled that she has developed posttraumatic stress disorder from the abuse from when she was a fourth-year elementary school student through the years until she graduated from junior high school, the lawyer said.