Los Angeles County will pay $20 million to the family of a four-year-old boy who was tortured to death by his parents in 2019, settling a years-long wrongful death lawsuit.
Noah Cuatro died days before his fifth birthday at the hands of his parents, Jose Maria Cuatro Jr. and Ursula Elaine Juarez, who pleaded no contest to murder and torture charges. They’ve both been sentenced to decades behind bars.
Evangelina Hernandez, the child’s great-grandmother, filed the wrongful death suit against the county in 2020 on behalf of Noah’s siblings. The suit accuses the county’s Department of Children and Family Services of ignoring a court order to remove the four-year-old from his parents’ custody, ABC7 reported…