Texas woman awarded $1.2 billion from ex-boyfriend in revenge porn lawsuit

HOUSTON – A Houston woman has been awarded $1.2 billion after her ex-boyfriend disbursed intimate photographs and movies of her on-line with out her permission — against the law referred to as “revenge porn.”

The sufferer was once awarded $200 million for previous and long term psychological anguish (compensatory damages) and $1 billion in exemplary damages, consistent with a press release.

The sufferer’s ex-boyfriend, Marques Jamal Jackson, has been ordered to pay the damages.

“We are grateful the jury took a strong stand against the defendant’s abhorrent behavior and against imaged-based sexual abuse. While a judgment in this case is unlikely to be recovered, the compensatory verdict gives [the victim] back her good name,” stated trial legal professional Bradford Gilde.

Court documents got by way of CBS News disclose that the previous couple to begin with ended their courting in 2020 however attempted to reconcile a number of instances and didn’t totally separate till the autumn of 2021.

During that point, the sufferer moved again in together with her mom and Jackson would go browsing to the sufferer’s mom’s house safety gadget to undercover agent at the sufferer, the lawsuit states.

Jackson hacked the sufferer’s paintings pc, emailed mortgage officials claiming the sufferer was once filing fraudulent packages and shared intimate subject matter of the sufferer on more than one social media web pages, courtroom data disclose.

Gilde stated Jackson supposed to inflict a mix of mental abuse, home violence and sexual abuse.

Trial proof published that Jackson informed the sufferer, “You will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to wipe yourself off the internet. Everyone you ever meet will hear the story and go looking. Happy Hunting.”

“We will forever admire [the victim’s] courage in fighting back. We hope the staggering amount of this verdict sends a message of deterrence and prevents others from this engaging in this despicable activity,” stated Gilde.

Texas made “revenge porn” against the law in 2015.

According to the National Association of Attorneys General, a minimum of 40 million other folks had reported being sufferers of image-based sexual abuse by way of 2019.