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Originally Posted by Giantone

Jury finds Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll: 5 key moments from the trial
The jury, which was made up of six men and three women, took less than three hours to reach a unanimous verdict, awarding Carroll a total of $5 million in damages.



NEW YORK CITY — A jury in a civil trial held in lower Manhattan found that former President Donald Trump sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s, and defamed her after she went public about the incident in 2019, in that he denied that the incident had occurred,.

But the jury, which was made up of six men and three women, also found that Trump was not guilty of raping Carroll. The mixed decision, which was unanimous, took the jury less than three hours to reach, and awarded Carroll a total of $5 million in damages.

Carroll sued Trump under a the Adult Survivors Act, a New York state law passed late last year, which gave adult victims of sexual assault and abuse one year to bring lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators regardless of when the alleged abuse took place.

It is good to see a woman actually be able to take a powerful man to court and actually get a minor victory. For far too long this would have been a slam dunk for a man to walk away unscathed. Hope there is more to come for more powerful corrupt men.