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Iowa to Pay $10 Million to Siblings of Adopted Teen Girl Who Died of Starvation in 2017

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Iowa to Pay $10 Million to Siblings of Adopted Teen Girl Who Died of Starvation in 2017
Judge Terry Rickers holds up a photo of Sabrina Ray prior to handing down a sentence to her parents, Misty Jo Bousman Ray and Marc Ray, at the Dallas County Courthouse in Adel, Iowa on Jan. 18, 2019. Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP
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11/7/2023|Updated: 11/7/2023
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Iowa will pay $10 million to the siblings of an adopted 16-year-old girl who weighed just 56 pounds when she died of starvation in a home where an attorney for the siblings says the children were forced to fight each other for food.

A state board approved the settlement for the siblings Monday, years after the severely malnourished body of Sabrina Ray was found in 2017 at her home in Perry, about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines. She lived with three other adoptive siblings as well as foster siblings.

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