The plaintiff brought an action against her father for sexual assault, sexual battery, and breach of fiduciary duty arising from events during her childhood and adolescence.
The court found that the father committed battery by shaving her pubic hair for a plaster cast, breached his fiduciary duty by requiring her to model nude after puberty, and sexually assaulted her at a family cottage.
The court awarded $180,000 in non-pecuniary damages (including aggravated and punitive damages) and $495,000 for past and future loss of income, applying a robust and pragmatic approach to causation given the plaintiff's pre-existing psychological vulnerabilities.
