Comment on Children molested by foster child awarded $3 million

SEATTLE — A federal judge has approved a $3 million settlement for three children who were molested after a Washington state adoption caseworker placed a sexually aggressive 12-year-old boy diagnosed as a “psychopath” into their home without telling the family. That amount is on top of $4.8 million awarded to the Island County parents of the children by a state court jury in January 2017 after finding the Department of Social and Health Services negligent in its decision in 2013 to adopt into their home a violent and deeply troubled boy identified in court documents by the initials W.S. According to those documents, W.S.