Two child placement agencies have agreed to pay a combined $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit over the death of a 10-year-old boy whose caregivers failed to get him medical attention for an intestinal blockage.

The settlement was reached between defendants NorthEast Treatment Centers and NET Treatment Centers and the estate of Ethan Okula, who died in February 2016, a death that his lawyer claims was “entirely preventable.”

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