DSHS Ordered To Pay $2.85M To Abused Boy
EVERETT — The state Department of Social and Health Services agreed Friday to pay $2.85 million to a boy whose brother was at the center of a high-profile child abuse case in Everett. The case was scheduled for trial next week in Snohomish County Superior Court. In 2007, Marilea Mitchell and her live-in boyfriend, Danny Abegg, were found guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court of criminal mistreatment after sheriff’s deputies found Abegg’s son in critical condition from malnourishment.
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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