A security company has been told by a jury to pay $1bn (£750m) to woman who was raped by one of its guards when she was 14-years-old. Hope Cheston was with her boyfriend outside a party in Atlanta, Georgia in October 2012, when the armed security guard approached, her attorney said. The guard told the boyfriend not to move and raped Ms Cheston. While the media never normally identify victims of rape – and it would be illegal to do so in a British case - but Ms Cheston, now 20, waived her anonymity. Read more Google accidentally reveals names of rape victims despite law The full-time college student who plans to spend her summer working with an organisation in Atlanta that helps homeless people, said she wanted her story to provide strength for other sexual-assault victims. The guard, identified in the lawsuit as Brandon Lamar Zachary, is serving a 20-year prison sentence, according to online prison records. Ms Cheston’s mother, Renatta Cheston-Thornton, filed a lawsuit in 2015 on behalf of her daughter. The jury has now handed down the verdict against Crime Prevention Agency, the security company that employed Zachary. Zachary, who was 22 at the time, should never have been hired because he wasn’t licensed as an armed guard, attorney L Chris… Read full this story
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