NBC News reported yesterday that a Montana federal court jury has awarded $35 million to a woman who contended that the national organization of the Jehovah's Witness church ordered Montana clergy not to report her sexual abuse as a child by a Jehovah's Witness congregation member. According to NBC:
A judge must review the penalty, and the Jehovah's Witnesses' national organization — Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York — plans to appeal.