A Kentucky agency accused of seeking to cover up mistakes made in a child abuse case has settled a whistleblower’s lawsuit against it.
The settlement says the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services paid former internal investigator Bridget Frailley $43,000 on November 13. In June, she sued the agency, saying she refused to falsify her report on how the cabinet’s Madison County child-protective office erred by leaving a girl with her father and his then-girlfriend.
The then-8-year-old was taken to a hospital in 2014. Authorities determined she’d been tortured for months. Both the father and ex-girlfriend are now behind bars.
Frailley’s attorney, Shane Sidebottom, says she’s satisfied with the outcome.
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