BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP – A judge ordered a prominent Alabama businessman to pay $8 million to his daughter, who claimed he subjected her to three decades of sexual abuse that began when she was a preschooler and included a rape the night she was crowned homecoming queen at her high school.
Circuit Judge Helen Shores Lee ruled against Fred M. Blackmon of Montgomery, a vice president with Merrill Lynch & Co., in a civil lawsuit filed by Louise Plott, who also claimed to be the victim of horrific emotional torture along with physical assaults that began when she was 5 and continued through recent years.
