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AP OAKLAND, Calif. - A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont church to molest her when she was a child in the mid-1990s.Alameda County jurors awarded $7 million in compensatory damages on Wednesday and another $21 million in punitive damages on Thursday to Candace Conti, her attorney, Rick Simons said. This is the largest jury verdict for a single victim in a religious child abuse case in the country, Simons told The Associated Press.In her lawsuit, Conti, now 26, said from 1995-1996, when she was 9 and 10 years old and a member of the North Fremont Congregation of Jehovah s Witnesses, she was repeatedly molested by a fellow congregant, Jonathan Kendrick.The Associated Pres <a href=https://www.cups-stanley.co.uk>stanley quencher</a> s does not normally name victims of child sexual abuse but Conti has identified herself publicly to encourage other victims of sexual abuse to come forward, Simons said. Nothing can <a href=https://www.cup-stanley-cup.us>stanley website</a> bring back my childhood, Conti told the Oakland Tribune. But through this verdict and through, hopefully, a change in their policy, we can make something good come out of it. Conti also claimed in her suit that the religion s national leaders formed a policy in 1989 that instructed the religion s elders to keep child se |