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A Georgia jury has awarded a young woman by the name of Hope Cheston $1 billion verdict against a security company after an apartment complex guard was convicted of raping her back in 2012, she was just 14-years-old.
Cheston was outside by picnic tables with her boyfriend during a party in October 2012 when an armed security guard approached. The guard told the boyfriend not to move and raped Cheston.
The guard, identified in the lawsuit as Brandon Lamar Zachary, was convicted of statutory rape and is serving a 20-year prison sentence, according to online prison records.
Renatta Cheston-Thornton, the victim’s mother filed a lawsuit in March 2015 on behalf of her daughter, who was still a minor at the time. On Tuesday, the jury handed down the verdict against Crime Prevention Agency, the security company that employed Zachary.
Zachary, who was 22 at the time of the assault, should’ve never been hired because he wasn’t licensed to be an armed guard.
The judge had already determined the security company was liable, so the jury was only determining damages, Stewart said. After reading the verdict, jurors immediately left the jury box without waiting for the judge’s permission to hug Cheston and her mother.
“I feel like my case is just to show that you may not get it immediately, but you will get what you’re worth,” Cheston said. “This shows that people do care about the worth of a woman.”
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