Two sisters in California were awarded $15.7 million dollars each after surviving an abuse adopted home where their 11-yar-old sister was starved to death. The massive and historic legal settlement acknowledged failures by the child welfare system that were intended to protect the three San Diego sisters.
Arabella McCormack died after suffering prolonged neglect and mistreatment. Her sister survived and is now at the center of a settlement tied to institutional oversight failures. Arabella died in 2022 at the home of her adoptive mother and father Leticia and Brian McCormack. The California adoptive parents called 911, saying the little girl had choked on chicken broth.
When found by San Diego first responders, Arabella McCormick was covered in cuts and bruises and had 13 bone fractures. The California girl was so emaciated that she weighed less at her death than she had when she was just five-years-old…