A Philadelphia jury handed down a nearly $3 million verdict against a Berks County children’s residential treatment home accused of ignoring the warning signs of a mentally ill teenager’s intent to commit suicide.

Calvin Long, the father of Carley Long, who at age 16 was struck and killed by a Norfolk Southern freight train on the night of May 6, 2015, after running from the Bethany Children’s Home facility in Womelsdorf, sued Bethany for failing to keep his daughter safe.

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