CLEVELAND, Ohio — The estate of a 4-year-old boy whose malnourished body was found buried in the backyard of his Cleveland home will get a second chance to argue Catholic Charities’ negligence contributed to his death.

A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas jury last year found the agency negligent in hiring and supervising its employees and determined that the negligence was a partial cause in the 2017 death of Jordan Rodriguez .

Catholic Charities was ordered to pay the boy’s estate $960,000 – later reduced to $740,000 – in compensatory damages.

The agency was contracted with the county to deliver social services to thousands of families, including Jordan’s. Instead, according to his estate, the worker assigned to the family engaged in food stamp fraud with his mother, failed to conduct b

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