Special needs children suing placement agencies after enduring years of abuse from a con artist who adopted them have overcome timeliness barriers to some—but not all—of their claims, a federal judge ruled.
In a case that grabbed national headlines, Florida authorities removed the children in 2007 from their adoptive mother, Judith Leekin, after learning of beatings, imprisonment, neglect and other forms of mistreatment.
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