Washington to pay millions to settle women’s ‘horrific’ foster-care abuse lawsuit By Alexis Krell, The News Tribune
Published: May 5, 2021, 5:27pm
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TACOMA The state has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle a lawsuit that said a woman and her children suffered years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of her adopted father.
The woman, who is now in her 40s, was 7 when she was placed in a Tacoma-area foster home with a man who eventually adopted her.
She’s identified in court records by the initials D.H., and her daughters are identified as K.W., J.H. and A.H.
Insurance companies are paying $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought against Kiwanis International and local Kiwanis clubs by seven men who were sexually
$6 million settlement for men abused at Tacoma boys home
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TACOMA, Wash. - Insurance companies are paying $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought against Kiwanis International and local Kiwanis clubs by seven men who were sexually abused at a Centralia group home for boys decades ago, attorneys for the men said Monday.
Washington state placed 11- to 17-year-old boys who had trouble adjusting to their foster families at the Kiwanis Vocational Home, which operated from 1979 to 1994. The facility proved a nightmare for many.
Boys were molested by other boys, by staff and by directors, and in some cases they were sent to do odd jobs at homes in the community where they were further abused. Reports of the abuse date to the early 1980s, when one boy called police for help only to have the executive director of the home interrupt the call to downplay the report, records cited in the lawsuit show.
$6 million settlement for men abused at Kiwanis boys home
May 3, 2021
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) Insurance companies are paying $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought against Kiwanis International and local Kiwanis clubs by seven men who were sexually abused at a Centralia group home for boys decades ago, attorneys for the men said Monday.
Washington state placed 11- to 17-year-old boys who had trouble adjusting to their foster families at the Kiwanis Vocational Home, which operated from 1979 to 1994. The facility proved a nightmare for many.
Boys were molested by other boys, by staff and by directors, and in some cases they were sent to do odd jobs at homes in the community where they were further abused. Reports of the abuse date to the early 1980s, when one boy called police for help only to have the executive director of the home interrupt the call to downplay the report, records cited in the lawsuit show.
Immigration status of key witness should have come out in Tacoma murder trial, court rules
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 5/4/2021 Alexis Krell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
May 4 A man sentenced to more than 50 years for a fatal stabbing in Tacoma needs a new trial, a panel of the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled.
Cesar Chicas Carballo, 34, should have been able to cross-examine a key witness about her immigration status because it concerned a possible motive for her to lie, the opinion said.
The unanimous three-judge panel of Division I of the state Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case for a new trial Monday.