The state also lacked a centralized system to track foster homes, since most placements were handled by voluntary agencies. The state failed to perform background checks that would have discerned Leekin’s use of fake identities.
The Complaint alleges the state’s reckless disregard for the plaintiffs’ safety. Finally, in 2007, the children were rescued from Leekin’s Florida home. Once in her home, the children were chronically beaten, handcuffed, humiliated, threatened, locked in a basement or garage, denied education and medical treatment and starved.
Leekin fostered and adopted dozens of special needs children using at least four different names to collect subsidy payments from the state. The Plaintiffs were placed with Leekin between 19. The lawsuit named the City of New York, the Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) and the foster care agencies that placed the children in Leekin’s care. SETTLEMENT WITH NYC and ACS: December 2012Ĭhildren’s Rights, along with local co-counsel in Florida and New York, filed this damages lawsuit on Apon behalf of 10 special needs children who were placed under the care of Judith Leekin, who repeatedly abused, tortured, neglected and imprisoned the children. STATUS: Settled claims against New York City and Administration of Children’s Services District Court, Eastern District of New York was consistently deprived of food.įinally, in July 2007, Florida officials removed S.W. with a crib leg and threatened to kill him and the other children by lining them up against the wall and shooting them. After the second grade, Leekin removed him from school entirely.Īt home, Judith Leekin repeatedly beat S.W.
was cuffed and zip-tied to a crib in the basement of Leekin’s home. S.W., one of the 10 plaintiffs in the case, was labeled as learning disabled and placed in the care of Judith Leekin in 1989 at age 2.
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