Kids abused by custodial dad, step to get $4.6 million from state (Carnation, Washington)

I believe we've posted on this case before. Here it's an UNNAMED DAD, but it's not that much work to ferret out his name.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/10/09/1857689/olympia-abused-kids-would-get.html

Abused kids would get $4.6 million from state

Washington state would pay $4.6 million to two children who were abused by their father and stepmother in Carnation under a tentative settlement.

The Associated Press
Published: 10/09/11 2:49 am | Updated: 10/09/11 2:49 am

Washington state would pay $4.6 million to two children who were abused by their father and stepmother in Carnation under a tentative settlement.

The Department of Social and Health Services said a judge must okay the deal.

When police went to the home in August 2008, they found that the older child, a 14-year-old girl, was badly malnourished and weighed just 48 pounds.

Child Protective Services had looked into the girl’s case three years earlier when she told a teacher she was frequently locked in her room and given little to eat. At the time, the stepmother agreed to do better, and the girl told a social worker she was getting enough to eat.

After that investigation, the children were pulled out of school. The father and stepmother later pleaded guilty to criminal mistreatment.