By Shawn DayThe Virginian-Pilot© June 30, 2009
VIRGINIA BEACH
A Portsmouth dentist who was sued by his daughter on allegations he raped and sodomized her has been ordered by a jury to pay her nearly $7 million in damages.
Attorneys for Dr. Francis Lesinski said they plan to appeal.
Lesinski’s daughter, Sarah Tacoronte, 21, wept after the jury’s verdict Monday. She had testified during the two-week trial that her father began molesting her when she was about 4 years old and the abuse continued until she was 14.
In 2006, after she reported the abuse to police, Lesinski was arrested and charged with several sex offenses. Prosecutors dropped the charges months later due to insufficient evidence.
He filed suit against his daughter and ex-wife alleging the abuse claims were false and had damaged his business. He later dropped that suit. His daughter then filed the current lawsuit and adopted the last name of her mother’s new husband.
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Woman wins $7 million judgment against father
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1 comments:
How sad that Lesinski, who has not been believed by two different juries now, either the Grand Jury, or the Civil Court jury, continues to claim himself the victim.
Also the reporting is wrong. Charges in the criminal case brought by the City of Virginia Beach were never dropped as reported; they were nul prossed, which means the case was not continued at that time but can be resumed at any moment from the point where the prosecution left off, which is after the Grand Jury indictment. In that case conviction would lead to jail, not money, so this man claiming the charges were originally filed to "get money" is absolutely preposterous. It was only after he filed a defamation suit against his daughter and her family, which he later quietly dropped for lack of merit, did Sarah feel compelled to file her suit against her father to clear her name. And yet he continues to try to sully her reputation to save his own, claiming that this successful pre-law college student, who was originally accepted into college as a Freshman with Distinction, has some sort of self-esteem problem. Again, absolutely preposterous!
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