WATERVILLE — Three adults who were abused as children by their father — and found their complaints to state child welfare agencies falling on deaf ears — won a $2.5 million settlement Wednesday in Douglas County Superior Court.
The adult children of Theron Jay Heideman, now 51 and jailed on charges of sexually abusing four other children in later years, were awarded the settlement from the Department of Social and Health Services in a judgment approved by Judge John Hotchkiss. They had sued the department in 2011, only to see the case thrown out by Hotchkiss in 2015 but restored by the state Court of Appeals the following year.
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