CALIFORNIA
San Diego 6
[with video]
By Nancy Aziz
Story Published: Oct 31, 2014
A San Diego Superior Court judge entered a $13.5 million judgment Friday in a sexual abuse case against the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Jose Lopez was awarded the money nearly 30 years after he says he was sexually molested by his Jehovah Witness bible-study teacher who later went on to become a church minister and elder.
The suit alleged the church knew Gonzolo Campos had abused another boy before he molested Lopez, but elders continued to allow Campos to teach bible study to children at the Linda Vista Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
At a news conference today Lopez said the award will never relieve his pain.
“It’s never going to be over for me. It was just a horrible thing and I want people to know what happened to me,” he said.
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