State to Pay $4.6M in Child-Starvation Case
On October - 8 - 2011
The girl is 17 now and no longer forced to sneak water from the toilet or suck condensation off windows. But she will require physical and emotional help for years. Three years after her father and stepmother were discovered to have starved and withheld so much water from the Carnation teenager that she wore a size 2 shoe and looked half her age, the state has agreed to pay the girl and her brother $4.6 million.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016440662_dshssettlement08m.html
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