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https://abc7.com/lancaster-anthony-avalos-settlement-million/11837962/

LANCASTER, Calif. (KABC) -- Los Angeles County would pay $32 million under
a tentative settlement of a lawsuit filed by relatives of a 10-year-old Lancaster boy who died in 2018 after allegedly being subjected to
extensive torture by his mother and her boyfriend, attorneys announced Wednesday.

The settlement of the county's portion of the lawsuit over the death of
Anthony Avalos was announced in court last week, but no terms were
disclosed. Attorneys for the family held a news conference Wednesday to announce the $32 million settlement amount, which is still pending
approval from the county Board of Supervisors.

Maria Barron, Anthony's aunt, told reporters that she "watched him come
into this world and I had to watch him leave."

"My life will forever be changed," she said tearfully. "I would give
everything up in order to see him again, to have him with us."

The agreement leaves Pasadena-based Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services as the only defendant in the lawsuit brought in July 2019. The
lawsuit accused the county and multiple social workers of failing to
properly respond to reports of abuses of Anthony and his half-siblings.

The suit alleges Hathaway-Sycamores assigned employee Barbara Dixon to
work with the family even though she had allegedly not reported abuse in
the case of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez of Palmdale, who, like Anthony,
was killed while in the care of his mother and her boyfriend.

But in their court papers, attorneys for Hathaway-Sycamores state the plaintiffs make no allegations as to what Dixon allegedly witnessed or
whether she suspected any abuse that was not already part of what the
county Department of Children and Family Services already knew.

A grand jury indicted Heather Maxine Barron, 32, and Kareem Ernesto Leiva,
36, in October 2018 on charges that they murdered the boy and abused two
other children in the household. The district attorney's office in May
2021 reversed course and announced it would no longer seek the death
penalty against the pair, who now face a possible maximum sentence of life
in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.

Prosecutors allege that Anthony was severely tortured during the last five
or six days of his life by his mother and Leiva. The alleged abuse
included whipping the boy with a belt and a looped cord, pouring hot sauce
on his face and mouth, holding him by his feet and dropping him on his
head repeatedly, according to a prosecution court filing.

From 2013 until his death in 2018, reports of abuse were made to the DCFS
that Anthony and his six half-siblings were denied food and water, beaten, sexually abused, dangled upside-down from a staircase, forced to crouch
for hours while holding heavy objects, locked in small spaces with no
access to a bathroom, forced to fight each other and forced to eat from
the trash, according to the plaintiffs' court papers.

"Despite these continued allegations of abuse, and some being found substantiated, DCFS continued to leave the children in Barron's and
Leiva's care, exposing Anthony and his half-siblings to continued torture
and abuse,'' the plaintiffs' court papers alleged.

City News Service contributed to this report.


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