Universal Health Services: $535 Million Verdict in Pavilion Rape Case involving 13-year-old

October 8, 2024

A Champaign County jury determined Thursday that The Pavilion Behavioral Health System, a local psychiatric facility, was negligent in the 2020 rape of a 13-year-old patient by another patient and must pay the victim $535 million in total damages.

Jurors deliberated for about six-and-a-half hours before siding in favor of the plaintiff, the young girl’s mother, ending the seven-day civil trial before Champaign County Judge Jason Bohm that saw testimony from 19 different witnesses.

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