Personal Injury Law

Family Receives $1.8 Million in Wrongful-Arrest Case

By Edward Bills

A Michigan police department will pay a local family $1.8 million as a result of the mother and father being wrongfully imprisoned for the alleged sexual abuse of their autistic daughter. Julian and Thal Wendrow were prosecuted and jailed after their 14-year-old daughter, who has the speech and functioning of a two-year-old, reportedly typed during a facilitated communication session that her father had been raping her for the last seven years. The girl showed no physical signs of assault in an examination and the method is widely discredited among experts. In addition, the couple?s son, who suffers from Asperger?s, was reportedly lied to and held in a two-hour investigation with no adult representative and can be seen on tape shaking and crying denying claims that he or his father assaulted anyone.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).