A Texas jury ordered oil heir Charles Edwin Brooks Jr. to pay 1.1 billion dollars for the 2021 assault of his two-year-old stepson.The record award follows a 2023 conviction where the Humble Oil descendant was sentenced to forty years in prison for disabling Blake Sampson.Madison Ball and
Stephen Sampson filed the lawsuit to secure lifelong medical care for their son who now requires a ventilator to breathe.