Children Injured and Abused by Adoptive Parents
Sometimes, children are placed and adopted by abusive parents and sexual predators. This can occur when the agencies negligently fail to uncover their criminal histories, arrest reports, abuse histories, and other acts of grooming or pedophilia. Other times, the case workers fail to visit or appropriately monitor these children or negligently perform home studies. After adoption, when the case worker visits have stopped visiting, Justice for Kids® attorneys have represented children where they have been imprisoned in cages, basements, endured bizarre punishment and emotional abuse, have been victimized by pedophiles, and even been enslaved by their parents. At Justice for Kids®, we hold accountable the agencies that are responsible for allowing these children to be adopted by abusive adoptive parents.
- Law Firm Sues Florida Dept. of Children & Families, Settles Negligence Case for $14.26 Million. Child abuse attorney Howard Talenfeld filed a civil rights complaint in federal court on behalf of 19 children against nine Florida Department of Children and Families employees who were responsible for the children’s adoption and / or investigations of the abuse allegations. The children were allowed to be adopted and lived in various locations with her between Orlando and Gainesville, FL, even though there had been a prior verified abuse report against the mother. The children were victims of bizarre punishments and beatings throughout their childhood. The State of Florida settled all of the Plaintiffs’ claims, including a negligence claim in Alachua County against DCF, for a total of $14.26 million.
- Law Firm for Eight Abused Former Foster Care Children Settles With NYC, Child Care Agencies for $26 Million. Nine developmentally disabled foster care children who were placed in what one judge called a “house of horrors” foster home have settled with New York state adoption and child welfare agencies and their state-contracted providers for $17.5 million. The settlement brings the total paid by the defendants to more than $26 million The lawsuit asserted that officials in New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and its contracted care providers failed to properly screen Leekin and uncover her identities, ignoring multiple red flags. ” Click here to read more – Link to PDF “12-06-2012 New York Times City settles with disabled people fraudulently adopted in 90s and abused” and www.nydailynews.com – Link to PDF “12-06-2012 New York Times City settles with disabled people fraudulently adopted in 90s and abused”
- Abused Florida Foster Children Win $2.9 Million in Landmark Civil Rights Decision. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld the right of three foster siblings to sue for damages resulting from sexual abuse committed against them while in foster care. The precedent setting decision (H.A.L. v. Foltz) focused on the unsupervised placement of three pre-school-aged foster children with two adolescent and teenage foster kids known to be sexual predators. Left alone together in the same home, the younger foster children reportedly were repeatedly raped by the older boys. As filed by their parents on behalf of plaintiffs H.A.L., J.H.L., and S.L.L., (identified in the case by their initials for purposes of protecting the minors’ identities) the action was a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against Defendants Ed Foltz (“Foltz”), Deborah Jones (“Jones”), and Virginia Jordan (“Jordan”). All three were employees with the Florida Department of Children and Families (“DCF”). In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs alleged that the Defendants had violated the children’s Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process rights to physical safety and to be free from an unreasonable risk of harm.
Civil Rights Win Brings Sexually Assaulted & Neglected Siblings $5 Million Settlement. Child abuse attorney Howard Talenfeld prevailed in this precedent-setting federal civil rights claim brought by six siblings (collectively called “John Roes” to protect the minors’ identities) who were egregiously physically, sexually and emotionally abused and neglected in a foster/adoptive home in Broward County, FL.
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