NBC2: Houston pastor ordered to pay $2.45M after allegedly giving woman herpes

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Houston pastor ordered to pay $2.45M after allegedly giving woman herpes

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A prominent Houston pastor has been ordered to pay $2.45 million to a woman that a jury found he gave herpes to. 

 

After a three-day trial and six and a half hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously found Rev. Ralph D. West II liable. 

 

“You can’t fix it, she’s got it for the rest of her life,” said Shaun Murphy, an attorney. 

 

Murphy spoke for his client, who a jury found contracted genital herpes from West after meeting on Facebook. As seen on the Church Without Wall’s website, he’s listed as the Eldridge Campus Minister.

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He added that he was able to prove those facts, along with evidence showing West lied about having herpes and spreading it when he and the woman had unprotected sex in March 2018. 

 

“She got an outbreak two or three days later and then went and got tested. From there, through the medical records, we were able to identify that he was the source of it, in part, because she hadn’t been with anybody else, she had a prior negative test,” Murphy said.

 

Murphy said subsequent conversations supported the claims. 

 

“When she asks, ‘Where did this come from?’ His response was, his son’s mother,” Murphy said. 

 

He adds there were also emails between West and his client.

 

Now everyone knows this guy has herpes