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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri Aug 29, 2014, 04:08 PM Aug 2014

NY foster agencies settle suit by kids for $17.5M

KELLI KENNEDY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI -- Three private New York foster care agencies will pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit by eight people who were fraudulently adopted by a woman and claimed they were repeatedly abused, starved and imprisoned in a "house of horrors," attorneys said.

The lawsuit was filed in 2009 in Brooklyn federal court on behalf of the children whom Judith Leekin, 67, adopted over an eight-year period ending in 1996. Howard Talenfeld, one of the attorneys for the now grown children, said both parties agreed to the settlement earlier this summer. A motion seeking approval from the court was filed Monday.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/29/4316396/ny-foster-agencies-settle-suit.html#storylink=cpy

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