Ten severely disabled adults, including four who are homeless, will get help under a $9.7 million settlement with New York City for abuse they suffered as children or young adults in an adoption scam.

Two South Florida law firms negotiated the settlement in a lawsuit filed in New York federal court in 2009 in collaboration with Children’s Rights Inc., a New York-based nonprofit law firm.

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