Claims Commission Says Parents Of Baby Should Get $225,000
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The state Claims Commission said the family
of a baby who died in a foster home should never have been taken
from his mother and ordered the state to pay her $225,000.
The commission is a recourse for people with complaints against
the state without having to go to court. It announced the ruling
yesterday, telling the Department of Human Services to pay the
family of Austin Smith, who died at the age of three months in
March 2001.
After a hearing earlier this month, two of the three
commissioners determined that the baby shouldn`t have been taken
from the parents after social workers took him from a baby sitter`s
care to treat diaper rash and diarrhea.
