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Los Angeles County Pays $2.8 Million For Failure To Protect Accused Child Molester In Jail
Loaded on March 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2008, page 40
An accused child molester who was savagely beaten by other prisoners after Los Angeles (LA) Men?s Central Jail officials negligently placed him in communal housing won a $2.8 million settlement from LA County.
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
California.
Jose Beas, 38, was babysitting a young girl who complained to her parents that he had put ...
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