According to the complaint filed by the woman in April 2022, her ex-boyfriend spread intimate images of her on the Internet for months.
A court in the US state of Texas has ruled that a man who stalked his ex-girlfriend online and shared her intimate photos on social media must pay him $1.2 billion in damages, reports The Washington Post.
According to the complaint filed by the woman in April 2022, for months her ex-boyfriend spread intimate images of her In Internet. The defendant created a website, a publicly accessible Dropbox folder and fake social media profiles to spread the explicit photos, as well as shared the images via email and on a pornography website, the lawsuit states.
Lawyers for the victim, identified as Jane Doe in court documents, told the outlet that the man obtained some of the images. accessing home security cameras of the woman.
“You will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to erase yourself from the Internet,” the man wrote in an email to his ex-partner. Lawyers claimed that the incessant harassment led the woman to consider suicide and she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Bradford Gilde, the plaintiff’s attorney, testified that he initially asked the jury to recommend a sum of $100 million in damages, but the court decided to award a much higher value. He also stressed that “this judgment It was not about the money or the amount, but about the message“.
“We applaud the strength of Jane Doe to bring this lawsuit and set an example by warning others that if you commit sexual abuse through images, you will spend the rest of your life with an excessive sentence on your head,” he stressed.
Source: RT
