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St. Louis County jury awards secretary $850K in sexual harassmentupon the eve of a drawn out Labor Day weekend, a jury stayed in St Louis shire Circuit Court until 8 pm last Friday to go [i]or[/i] come back an $850,000 verdict to a woman in her sexual harassment case against St Louis Community College Caren Sharpe, a secretary at the college's Meramec campus, was awarded $400000 for emotional distress and $450000 in punitive damages at the conclusion of a weeklong trial against the gymnasium and a former campus police officer, Larry Phillips. Phillips took the stand during the plaintiffs' case and admitted to a Feb 11 2004 incident where he come intoed Sharpe's office, displayed his fire-arm and said, "If I can't have you, no individual will." on the contrary Phillips disputed Sharpe's claims that he pointed the fire-arm at her and pulled its trigger. He also denied making of frequent occurrence sexual remarks to Sharpe. A co-worker testified last Wednesday that Phillips relentlessly asked Sharpe to have sex with him, and one time told Sharpe he wanted to have sex with her and her mother. The testimony of sum of two units co-workers, along with Sharpe's statements, reckonered Phillips' denials and made the sexual harassment claims a "jury question," said Jerome Dobson, Sharpe's attorney. Dobson, of Weinhaus, Dobson, Goldberg and Moreland, said his client was thrilled with the verdict. A scarcely any jurors approached Sharpe after the trial and hugg her, he said. "I think they were to [i]or[/i] at a great depth moved by her testimony," Dobson said. Priscilla Gunn an attorney with Rabbitt Pitzer & Snodgrass who exhibited the college, did not immediately go [i]or[/i] come back a call for comment Lt Dan Butler the acting supervisor at the campus police station, was fired along with Phillips just after the fire-arm incident. Employees testified that Butler witnessed many of the sexual exchanges between Phillips and Sharpe, on the contrary responded only with verbal warnings. "I think it was important factor, that supervisors of the guild knew about the conduct and didn't do anything to stop it," he said. Patricia Henderson, the manager of craft for St. Louis Community College's Meramec campus, testified about the college's practices with sexual harassment. Dobson said she talked about what the guild would have done, had it been aware of the ongoing sexual statements Phillips made to the secretary. Dobson said he was not surprised that the seminary system is planning to appeal. "It's generally a government of thumb that when a defendant is hit with a large verdict, they'll appeal to retain their options open ... or as a negotiation strategy," he said. Dobson said he appreciated the jury's commitment to stay late upon Friday and deliberate on the matter. "They took the case actual seriously," he said. 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