This week on New Mexico in Focus, Gene Grant discusses the recent $485 million settlement awarded on behalf of an 8-year-old girl. The lawsuit, first filed in 2019, alleges a non-profit company called Familyworks, licensed by the state Children, Youth.
A jury has awarded $485 million in damages in a civil case brought on behalf of an 8-year-old girl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted in a New Mexico
The $485 million award came in a case involving an 8-year-old Bernalillo County girl who alleged she was sexually abused in 2018 by a treatment foster care parent licensed through