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
The lawsuit accused companies of failing to protect children in their care from Clarence Garcia, a foster parent who was criminally charged with sexual abuse of children.
By Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico One evening last December, a 14-year-old foster youth sexually assaulted a child four years younger than himself in the Albuquerque office of New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department. It happened, according to police, in a bathroom near the facility’s outdoor playground, as a CYFD supervisor was chatting on […]
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