RTFA: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311889,00.html

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A judge ordered a prominent businessman to pay $8 million to his daughter, who claimed he sexually abused her for decades beginning when she was a preschooler and included a rape the night she was crowned homecoming queen.

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.

Blackmon’s attorneys argued unsuccessfully that many of Plott’s claims were too wild to believe and unsupported by evidence. Among other things, she alleged that Blackmon repeatedly took her to orgies at a hotel as a young girl, once mailed her a dismembered thumb and a fetus, and forced her to participate in the stabbing death of a young man…

Documents filed by the defense show Plott’s mother, Bess Blackmon, and four siblings denied during testimony that they saw signs of abuse, but one of her sisters also described the allegations as “complicated.” Plott claimed two of her brothers were forced as children to join in the sexual assaults by their father, an allegation both brothers denied.

Blackmon testified during the trial that he no longer loved Plott because of what he said were false allegations. He said he quit giving Plott an $8,000-a-month “allowance” after she contacted attorneys in January 2006 about a lawsuit.

I don’t see how this guy was convicted when his two sons, who he supposedly also abused, denied the allegations.