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Civil Litigation

Jul. 8, 2019

Jury: San Bernardino must pay $113M in child abuse case

San Bernardino County must pay $113 million to a 10-year-old for failing to monitor the household where he was being abused by his stepmother, a jury found.

San Bernardino County must pay $113 million to a 10-year-old for failing to monitor the household where he was being abused by his stepmother, a jury found.

"This was a very hard-fought battle that lasted almost five years," plaintiff's attorney Steven R. Vartazarian of the Vartazarian Law Firm in Sherman Oaks said of Wednesday's jury verdict. "Our endeavors and principle of pursuing the case were to fix a broken Child Protective S...

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