Hennepin County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a wrongful death suit brought by the family of a 6-year-old girl who committed suicide while in foster care, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday.
Kendrea Johnson, 6, was found hanging from a jump rope tied to the bunk bed railings in her Brooklyn Park, Minn. foster home on Dec. 27, 2014. Her grandmother, Mary Broadus, sued the county in 2016, arguing that its “…unconscionable and unconstitutional indifference” to Johnson’s medical needs and daily suicidal thoughts ultimately resulted in the child’s death.