WA Paying $9M To Portland Woman Sexually Abused In Foster Care
(Olympia, WA) -- Washington is paying millions of dollars to a Portland woman who says she was sexually abused under the state's foster care system. The Seattle Times reports the state will pay nine-million dollars to 34-year-old Ashley Miller. Miller says her foster parent's live-in boyfriend raped and abused her from the time she was five-years-old until she was 12. Her lawsuit says the Department of Social and Health Services knew the man was a convicted felon and failed to properly monitor her foster home's conditions. The man, identified as Carlos McFann, pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree rape of a vulnerable adult last year in a separate case.



