Boarding school can legally be held responsible for employees that sexually assaulted a minor boy in their care, who later committed suicide, Judge says.
Verdict comes after two previous juries ordered Abbott Laboratories and Mead Johnson to pay millions of dollars in damages to families of children who developed NEC from Similac or Enfamil.
Two previous state trials involving lawsuits over NEC infant formula risks led to verdicts awarding families more than half a billion dollars.
Three plaintiffs were each awarded $500 million in punitive damages, which the jury leveled against Bayer and Monsanto to punish the makers of Roundup for disregarding consumer safety.
Former student's suicide note specifically called out his abuse as a teen while at the Agape Christian boarding school, which included being gang raped by men in the basement, according to the wrongful death lawsuit.
The plaintiff indicated he developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from Roundup, after using the weed killer as part of a neighborhood restoration project.
The Roundup lawsuit claimed a woman developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after exposure to the glyphosate-based weedkiller while gardening
Missouri state court trial will involve a woman who developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after using Roundup spray bottles as a child
It is the third Roundup cancer trial in Missouri which has ended in a defense verdict, and comes as the manufacturers face at least 10 additional jury trials nationwide in the coming months
The lawsuit claims obedient children were trained and forced to physically assault their peers, or faced beatings, discipline or sexual abuse themselves.
