CALIFORNIA
The Orange County Register
By KELLY PUENTE | kpuente@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: June 5, 2017
SANTA ANA — An Orange County jury on Monday, June 5 awarded $2 million in damages to the granddaughter of late televangelist Jan Crouch, finding that the minister acted outrageously when she blamed and berated her 13-year-old granddaughter after the girl told her she had been sexually assaulted by a church employee.
The jury deliberated for nearly eight hours before determining that Jan Crouch, who co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network empire with her late husband, Paul, caused her granddaughter Carra Crouch, now 24, years of emotional pain and suffering.
The judgment was $1 million for past emotional damage, and $1 million for future pain and suffering.
Did TBN ministers Paul, Jan Crouch cover up 13-year-old granddaughter’s rape allegation?
On the hook for $900,000 is the Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, the nonprofit that runs TBN, because jurors found the late Jan Crouch 45 percent responsible for causing Carra Crouch’s emotional distress.
Carra Crouch’s mother was assigned 35 percent, but she wasn’t even a defendant so she doesn’t have to pay. The remaining 20 percent was attached to the alleged rapist, who also was not a defendant and was never arrested.
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