A Philadelphia judge has upheld a more than $5 million verdict over sex abuse against a foster care agency, rejecting a bid to have the verdict overturned due in part to post-verdict research of jurors that revealed two had possibly lied during voir dire.
The defendant in the case, Presbyterian Children’s Village, had been hit with the verdict in October that included $5 million in compensatory damages, plus $350,000 in punitive damages. The verdict stemmed from claims that the agency placed a child in a foster home where she was sexually abused, despite allegedly knowing that the foster home was being investigated for abuse allegations.
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