Singer voices support for victims

DENVER, Colorado - Immediately after a jury determined that Taylor Swift had been groped by a radio station host before a concert, the singer-songwriter turned to one of her closest allies - her mother - and said she hoped the verdict would inspire other victims of sexual assault.

Swift hugged her crying mother after the six-woman, two-man jury said in US District Court on Monday that former Denver DJ David Mueller had groped the pop star during a photo op four years ago. Per Swift's request, jurors awarded her $1 in damages - a sum her attorney, Douglas Baldridge, called "a single symbolic dollar, the value of which is immeasurable to all women in this situation".

In a statement, Swift thanked her attorneys "for fighting for me and anyone who feels silenced by a sexual assault".