Thursday, October 17, 2013

Hardin and Rhodes did not reply to requests for comment sent through the cabinet.



The lawsuit also names Bonnie Hommrich — then a deputy commissioner in the  ninja costume  cabinet, now in a similar position with Tennessee's Department of Children's Services — accusing her of failing to properly train and supervise employees handling adoptions.
A spokesman for the Tennessee department said Hommrich declined to comment.
Jill Midkiff, spokeswoman for the Kentucky cabinet, also declined to comment on the lawsuit, which doesn't name the Kentucky cabinet as a defendant because it is legally immune from such suits.
The family's attorney, William McMurry, said the goal is to hold the officials accountable.
The lawsuit cites federal subsidies of up to $8,000 provided to the state for placing older foster children in adoptive homes — children considered difficult to place. McMurry contended that the financial motive for the cabinet provides an incentive for workers to cut corners in making placements.
McMurry, a longtime personal-injury lawyer, oversaw lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Louisville alleging the coverup of sexual abuse. The lawsuit resulted in what was then a near-record U.S. settlement of $25.7 million in 2003.
James "Rick" Hilger said he hopes his family's lawsuit succeeds in "bringing some  cosplay wigs  transparency" to Kentucky's adoption process "to prevent this from happening to somebody else."


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