A group of former foster care children have won a $7 million settlement from the state of Massachusetts after authorities allegedly turned a blind eye to their abuse at the hands of carers.
The lawsuit was filed by the four former foster children against the Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) and 17 officials from the agency. It alleged that defendants violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights “by ignoring repeated reports of abuse and exposing the children to ongoing sexual, physical, and emotional torture in the foster home of Raymond and Susan Blouin in Oxford, Massachusetts,” according to an Aug. 11 press release by BHPK, the law firm representing the abuse survivors.
