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In a record settlement for wrongdoing by a state agency, the state will pay $15 million to resolve a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of nine young children abused by a Salem foster father.

"We feel we achieved a successful outcome for the victims," Portland attorney Steven Rizzo said Monday.

Rizzo filed the lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services on behalf of medically fragile newborns, infants and toddlers ranging in age from 2 days to 3 years.

The former foster parent, James Earl Mooney, now 31, is serving a 50-year prison sentence state at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution.

His crimes came to light in 2011 after a 3-year-old disclosed that Mooney had sexually abused her, Rizzo said.

Mooney, who became a foster parent in 2007 at age 22, told detectives that he couldn't remember the names of all the children he'd abused, sexually or otherwise.

Rizzo said about 30 children were placed with the Mooneys over four years. The plaintiffs were all children who stayed for several months and were repeatedly abused.

Mooney told investigators that the children's crying upset him and he had a history of abusing animals and small children. Court records show he pleaded guilty in 2012 to five counts of first-degree sodomy and one count of first-degree sexual abuse.

Rizzo said the Department of Human Services committed a slew of failures, beginning in the certification phase, when it made Mooney and his then-wife foster parents. And the pattern of errors continued in the agency's supervision of the Mooneys and the children in their care, he said.

Among the missteps, the lawsuit faulted department employees for allegedly ignoring escalating signs of abuse such as the children's complaints of pain while using the toilet, redness on their buttocks and their behaviors such as biting, pulling out hair and smearing feces.
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-...akK9ZQc910GQmxngYx07kcEPO1ltuP_iGIVr37yERhW8A
 
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I hope the social workers that were responsible for overseeing the children in the home and ignored the signs of abuse were terminated.
 
I'm hoping for an update on this where this guy is found dead from anal trauma in the showers...fucking animal
 
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