Foster sons seek millions from Alaska

Foster sons seek millions from Alaska

Alaska, Jan. 12 A lawsuit against the state of Alaska by two boys placed with an abusive foster mother went to trial this week.

The two boys, identified only as A.J. and D.D., are seeking $10 million each, The Anchorage Daily News reported. Now in their late teens, the plaintiffs are still wards of the state.
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Boys abused in foster care sue state

The two boys were born into families messed up by drinking and drug abuse, by violence and neglect.

Then the state agency that is supposed to protect children put the boys with a foster mother who routinely hit and tormented them and things only got worse. Before it was over, the foster mother beat another boy to death in front of them.