$2M Recommended Compensatory Damages + $7.5M Punitives for Inmate Raped by Guard

So a Magistrate Judge concludes in recommending a default judgment in favor of the inmate.

From today's Report and Recommendation by Magistrate Judge Ronald Griffin (W.D. Tex.) in Doe v. Serna-Venegas; the lawsuit is just against the guard (the County had been dismissed earlier, as had some other individual defendants), so it seems unlikely the plaintiff will recover much money from this particular award. Some extra appalling dollops in an already appalling case:

In her Complaint, Plaintiff alleges Defendant had a commercial web page on "OnlyFans.com," where he was paid to have sex with females, including inmates, and post it on his page. Investigators later reviewing videos on Defendant's phone found at least seven different videos of Defendant having sex with inmates at the Midland County Jail. Defendant was ultimately prosecuted and convicted of six felony counts of improper sexual activity with a person in custody.

Comments

[Orbital Mechanic]

I suppose if I hang out in the comment board I will learn about how totally unjustified this award was because reasons and it is just based on woke.

[Frank Drackman]

You have to wonder who would voluntarily work in a Prison for 2,000 hours a year with minimal pay/benefits, maximum danger.
Oh yeah, guys like this, who I hope is on the other end of the Male/Female connection, maybe even several times a day
What’s he going to do? Complain to a Guard?

Frank