Jury returns $1 billion verdict in child sexual abuse civil case

Victim is Natchitoches resident

A Bossier Parish jury returned a verdict of more than $1.1 dollars in a sexual abuse civil suit, the largest person to person civil jury verdict in Louisiana judicial history.

Pamela Lockridge, 68, who grew up in Bossier City, brought suit against her now deceased step father, Leroy Edwards, after more than a decade of sexual abuse while she was a child.

“For most of my life, I carried this abuse in…