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Article Source: EnterprizeNews.comBROCKTON — It began with a 6-year-old city boy touching a girl in his class, and it ended up costing the city $50,000 in legal fees – plus thousands more in city insurance payouts totaling nearly a quarter-million dollars.
The elementary school student, accused of sexually harassing a classmate as a first-grader in 2006, will receive a total of about $160,000 in a legal settlement reached with the city. His parents received $20,000.
By Maria Papadopoulos
mmm wonder what the girl he touched gets? This is all insane! we have zero tolerance for things, when so many things just do not come wrapped up neat with a little bow around it. Kids will be kids to a point, we all were, when i got caught playing Dr i got a talking to, not kicked out of school, and then brought to a court house to sue the city. OMG I do have to say the US has become a sue happy society! Hey don't look at me that way, because i am handicapped, i am calling my lawyer you violating my rights, and i am scarred for life, think of the emotional damage...come on people! wake up! I think we need to go by Canada's rules, you file a suite against someone, and you lose you have to pay for everything! yep thats right all your legal fees, none of this i will only take something if you win, plus you have to pay the fees of the ones you are suing! sure does cut the suites down. I am sorry i am just so sick of hearing about people getting money for silly things he is 6 years old come on people!!!!!!!!
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