A Dallas County jury has awarded $1.1 billion in a child abuse case led by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee—a verdict his firm says is the largest of its kind in U.S. history.
The case involves Charles Edwin Brooks Jr., the great-grandson of Percy Turner, one of the original investors in Humble Oil, adding a high-profile Texas lineage to one of the most severe child abuse cases to reach a courtroom in recent years.
According to court filings, Brooks assaulted a two-year-old child in April 2021 while babysitting, leaving him with catastrophic injuries that would permanently alter his life…