Jury Verdict News: Fontana Unified employee awarded $6.5 million in sexual assault case

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The school dis­trict issued a state­ment Tues­day say­ing the jury’s ver­dict rep­re­sent­ed less than 10 per­cent of the amount the plain­tiff asked the jury to …

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SAN BERNARDINO » A jury has award­ed a for­mer Fontana Uni­fied School Dis­trict police dis­patch­er near­ly $1.5 mil­lion after the woman sued the dis­trict and one of its for­mer police offi­cers, who she accused of rap­ing her while on duty.

Fol­low­ing a 21-day tri­al that began on Jan. 20 and spanned six weeks, a jury returned Mon­day with a judg­ment of $1,487,000 in com­pen­sato­ry dam­ages against the school dis­trict and its for­mer police offi­cer, John Frank Garcia.

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