Federal Lawsuit Filed Against DCFS Workers In Rica Rountree's Beating Death

Michael Reynolds
/ AP
The beating death of an 8-year-old Normal girl is the focus of a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against six state child welfare workers, the child’s father and the woman serving life in prison for the child’s death.
Rica Rountree died in January 2019 of internal injuries caused by repeated blows she suffered while living with her father, Richard Rountree, and his girlfriend Cynthia Baker, in Normal.  A jury convicted Baker of murder in November 2019; she was sentenced last month to life in prison.
Rountree was sentenced to eight years for child endangerment.
In a virtual news conference, nationally recognized civil rights lawyer Ben Crump and two members of his legal team said Rica’s constitutional rights were violated by the state, the Department of Children and Family Services and six DCFS workers who failed to protect her from ongoing physical abuse. The child’s father and Baker also are named as defendants in the complaint.

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