Sunday, January 9, 2011

Wash. to pay $2.85M in abused child case

Associated Press - January 8, 2011 12:25 AM ET

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A lawyer says the Washington state Department of Social and Health Services has agreed to pay $2.85 million to a boy whose brother was at the center of a dramatic Snohomish County child abuse case.

Lawyer David Moody says the companion case was settled Friday. A Snohomish County lawsuit involving Joey Abegg was set to go to trial Monday.

A DSHS spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment Friday night.

Moody says despite many warnings of neglect, abuse and malnourishment, the state failed to protect Joey Abegg between the ages of 3 and 7.

A lawsuit over the near-fatal starving of Joey's younger brother Shayne Abegg was earlier settled for $6 million. Cynthia Gibson of Moody's firm says the state paid $5 million while other defendants paid the remainder.

Shayne's father, Danny Abegg, and Abegg's live-in girlfriend, Marilea Mitchell, were convicted of criminal mistreatment and sentenced to eight years in prison in his case.

To sycophant CPS fans- Please take a few minutes and tell me why America needs CPS.  What's the solution- kidnap ALL the kids and raise them in Residential Treatment where they are guaranteed to be doped, raped and beaten?

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