A jury ruled San Diego County must pay nearly $2 million for its failure to protect a child in its care from her sexually abusive biological father.
One of Child Welfare Services missions is to protect children but a recent jury verdict ruled the county agency didn’t protect attorney Randall Rechs' young client we're calling "Doe."
“They were in the best position to protect this young lady and I think they failed. And this little girl paid the price,” explained Rechs.
According to the civil suit Rechs filed in 2010, the adopted girl told family members she'd been molested over four months time while visiting her biological father. The child was 12 at the time of the abuse.
A traumatizing crime that likely could have been prevented.
Even though bound by law, Child Welfare Services didn't tell the adoptive parents that as early as 1998 the father was accused of sexually assaulting Doe's older brother.
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