A convicted sex offender from southern Kentucky has been ordered to pay $1.8 million to the victim of five years of molestation.
U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell on Wednesday concluded that 35-year-old Jeffrey Lawan Renfrow of Morgantown made no effort to stop the abuse.
The judgment stems from a civil suit brought by the victim against Renfrow in federal court in Bowling Green.
Russell awarded $850,000 in compensatory damages, $1 million in punitive damages and $46,800 for toward future medical treatment.
Renfrow is serving a 30-year prison sentence after being convicted of three counts of second-degree sodomy and three counts of first-degree sexual abuse.
The plaintiff in the suit is now an adult. The Associated Press does not name the victims of sexual assault.
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