Alameda County settles abuse lawsuit by Yusuf Bey foster daughters

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/13/7 | Henry K. Lee

[SmithL]

OAKLAND - Alameda County has agreed to pay $188,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by three women who said the late leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusuf Bey, sexually assaulted them and abused them as minors after the county placed them in his home.

The three women, identified in the lawsuit only as Jane Doe 1, 2 and 3, were foster children or wards of the court from 1978 to 1994 and were placed in Bey's home by county social service workers.

Bey routinely raped them, defecated on them, forced them to drink his urine and semen and threatened them with harm if they ever told anyone, according to the suit the women filed in Alameda County Superior Court in July 2003 that sought millions in damages.

Two of the women, who are sisters, were impregnated by Bey, the suit said.

"Each plaintiff has suffered and is suffering from mental and emotional distress based on post-traumatic (stress) disorder," the women's attorney, David Washington, wrote in court papers. "Plaintiffs will need psychological treatment indefinitely."

The county agreed in February to settle the case and avert a trial, Alameda County Counsel Richard Winnie said Thursday.

"It was going to be extremely difficult to litigate that case," Winnie said. "It was very old, the facts were very murky and, of course, we were going to have to rely on people who were subjected to intimidation and whose testimony could be influenced by intimidation."

[metmom]

Friends of mine who have worked in foster care have told me that any child who has been in the foster care system for more than two years has been sexually abused by someone in one of the foster families, guaranteed.

I know some wonderful people who have made great foster parents and great sacrifices; and others who are in it ONLY for the money. They treat the kids like animals, and keep for themselves all the money meant for the kids.

Since kids who are abused like this often don’t speak up at the time, there’s no way to fix the system and keep others from being put in the same homes.

[tdewey10]

We need to go back to state orphanages. Foster care doesn’t work. Yes there are some people making great sacrifices. But there are just too many risks to the kids.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Agreed.

[fortunecookie]

Bey routinely raped them, defecated on them, forced them to drink his urine and semen and threatened them with harm if they ever told anyone, according to the suit the women filed in Alameda County Superior Court in July 2003 that sought millions in damages. Two of the women, who are sisters, were impregnated by Bey, the suit said.

OMG. What a monster. I hope the girls are getting the help they need. It seems somehow more macabre that he ran a bakery.

[jabbermog]

How can you be so culturally insensitive ???!!!! He only did what he did out of rage and frustration over British and US foreign policy !

Seriously though , this is standard behaviour for the Mohammed Supporters Association. In my view no Islamic male should be allowed to foster children . Boy or girl , they are likely to diddle either.