[xxqqzz]

This is over a year old, but didn't see it posted. Saw about it in a video by a personal injury lawyer about what a good job the lawyers did. Corporation placed girl in foster home with guy who had been accused of abusing 6 other children. Defendants shredded evidence. Child molester got 20 years probation!

[johniegrad]

No doubt a monetary settlement was indicated here. But $485 million?

[rktman]

Why not a billion?

[monkeyshine]

Probation? I understand prosecutors also want to avoid trials, but some crimes need to be prosecuted to the maximum.

[caddie]

Awarding this amount is absurd, the taxpayers will be punished and the d*c#h&@d bureaucrats and judges who allowed it and supervised this serial abuse are going unpunished.

It's a certainty they are all liberal Rats, too.

Of course compensate the victims, but do it from the personal retirement funds of the bureaucrats and judges who let this happen.

Judges and bureaucrats right now, as is is, have NO skin in the game. They have NO peer pressure from the legal profession to act responsibly. They all need to suffer.

[metmom]

I have friends who did foster care for a while.

They said that any child in the system for two years or more was guaranteed to have been sexually abused at some time.

[Pontiac]

The verdict came late Friday after Rio Arriba County jurors heard nearly two weeks of testimony that focused in part on allegations of corporate negligence.

It is not negligence to place a young child in the care of a pedophile

It is callous disregard for the welfare of a child. They placed a child in a situation where she was guaranteed to be sexually tortured.

These public servants should be fired, lose their pensions and never again be able to hold a position in any government job.

They place this girl in the custody of this pedophile just to get her off their books.

[Perseverando]

20 years probations?

Maybe the perp can help pay off the $485 million judgment by working as a child care provider while he's on probations. /SARC