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2 months ago$31.5 million settlement reached in child's starvation death suit against city and county of San Diego, others
A lawsuit alleging systemic failures that led to the starvation death of an 11-year-old girl at the hands of her adoptive family has resolved with settlements tallying $31.5 million dollars including $10 million each from the city and county of San Diego. The neglect lawsuit was brought on behalf of Arabella McCormack's two younger sisters, who were 6 and 7 years old when Arabella died in August 2022.
California
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months agoAbuse ignored at Medomsley detention centre where prolific sex offender attacked young men, report finds
Neville Husband, a prison officer and caterer, raped and tortured hundreds of boys and young men at Medomsley detention centre while authorities ignored allegations.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 months agoWorst sex offender in history' operated unchecked at notorious detention centre
Systemic failures and leadership negligence allowed widespread physical and sexual abuse, including prolific sexual assaults by Neville Husband, at Medomsley Detention Centre from 1961–1987.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months agoGrooming gang survivors risk becoming pawns in a political game that is no place for vulnerable people | Gaby Hinsliff
Systemic failures by social services, police, and local authorities allowed the grooming and repeated rape of vulnerable children like Fiona Goddard to continue for years.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
5 months agoChancellors Playing Footsie With Authoritarianism
Arguments about how we should consider some measure of accommodation (to fascism, to AI) abound, and some are even reasonable-sounding. These are powerful forces with their hands around the throat of our futures. Certainly no one can be blamed for doing what it takes to nudge those hands back a few millimeters so you can get enough air to breathe.
US politics
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