Girl found living in squalor wins $4M settlement from state
EVERETT — The state has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it failed to protect a girl who was discovered with her young siblings in 2015, abandoned in a filthy home in Lake Stevens.
The settlement, reached Oct. 25, became public Monday after a hearing in Snohomish County Superior Court.
The case was brought on behalf of a girl, now 9, and living with her biological father.
She was one of three children taken into protective custody during winter 2015 after being found alone and living in a home with no heat and the floors covered with human and animal waste. Two boys, then aged 3 and 10 months, also were rescued, one suffering from hypothermia.
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