1.  52.4, Plaintiffs suffered harm, including shock, fright, distress, grief, and anguish, in an  amount to be determined at trial.   Heaps’s acts of gender violence against Plaintiffs entitle them to actual  damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, and an award of reasonable  attorney’s fees and costs under Section 52.4 of the California Civil Code.  A.  Heaps Assaulted Plaintiffs   Gender Violence  Civil Code § 52.4  (Against Heaps)   Plaintiffs incorporate the above allegations by reference.   Heaps’s acts committed against Plaintiffs, including his sexual harassment,  molestation, and abuse of them, constitute gender violence and sex discrimination.     One or more of Heaps’s acts would constitute a criminal offense under  California law that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of  physical force against the person of another, committed in part based on the gender of  the victim, whether or not those acts have resulted in criminal complaints, charges,  prosecution, or conviction.  Heaps’s conduct caused a physical intrusion and invasion of  a sexual nature to Plaintiffs under coercive conditions, whether or not such conduct has  resulted in criminal complaints, charges, prosecution, or conviction.   As a direct and proximate result of Heaps’s violations of Civil Code Section  