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Submitted by The Fire Inside on Fri, 02/17/2006 - 7:22am.
If Washington state isn't liable for these children (when government is their "parent"), how can any parent be held fiscally liable for their children's actions?

If we replace Washington state with John and Jane Doe, they would probably lose everything they had.

The Seattle Times:

A near-unanimous state Supreme Court has swept aside an $8.3 million civil judgment against the state for the vicious beating in 1999 of a Somali refugee by a group of teenagers living in a West Seattle foster home.

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