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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over a 7-year-old boy’s murder in 2015 alleging that the state’s child welfare agency should have removed him from an abusive home before he was starved and tortured and his body was fed to pigs.

Gov. Laura Kelly and top leaders of the Kansas Legislature approved the settlement during a brief public meeting Tuesday after conferring with state Attorney General Kris Kobach’s top deputy in private for 30 minutes. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 in Wyandotte County in the Kansas City area by the boy’s mother, maternal grandmother and adult sister, and a district court trial was scheduled for April 2025.

The boy, Adrian Jones, was living with his father, Michael Jones, and his stepmother, Heather Jones, in Kansas City, Kansas, when he died. Both are serving 25 years-to-life prison sentences for his murder, and authorities said the boy was beaten and locked naked in a shower stall for months as a closed-circuit surveillance camera recorded his deteriorating condition.

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[-] Bimbleby@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Since I have become a parent I can't stand to read things like this.

How anyone can be this cruel, is beyond me.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't think it explains it; it certainly doesn't excuse it... But oftentimes depravity is projection. Those murderers probably felt deep down that they lived their own lives in fear, felt they had no control over their environment/suffering, etc.

Then they see a child crying and they think "you think this is bad, let me show you my inner hell. I'll show you what bad is."

Idk. Humans are awful.

Anyways, good thing they're locked away.

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Same. Have a seven year old myself and stories like this just break my heart.

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