In less than a week, the San Diego City Council will vote whether to approve a $10 million legal settlement over the death of 11-year-old Arabella McCormack. It’s one of several settlements that a civil court judge granted Tuesday morning, totaling $21.5 million.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Arabella’s surviving younger sisters. It described numerous failures to report and investigate child abuse prior the girl’s death.
Prosecutors say Arabella died in August 2022, the victim of child abuse and torture at the hands of her adoptive mother, Leticia McCormack; adoptive grandfather, Stanley Tom; and adoptive grandmother, Adella Tom. All three have pleaded not guilty in a criminal case that’s faced years of delays.
Prosecutors say Arabella’s adoptive father, Brian McCormack, a Border Patrol agent, would also be facing criminal charges if he were alive today. He took his own life in front of deputies just hours after Arabella died…