A lawsuit alleging systemic failures that led to the starvation death of an 11-year-old girl at the hands of her adoptive family has resolved with settlements tallying $31.5 million dollars — including $10 million each from the city and county of San Diego.

The neglect lawsuit was brought on behalf of Arabella McCormack’s two younger sisters, who were 6 and 7 years old when Arabella died in August 2022. The three children had been living with a Spring Valley couple who’d taken them in as foster children a few years earlier, eventually adopting them.

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It accused several agencies, organizations and staffers of failing to report possible abuse of Arabella, who died in a state of malnutrition

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