EVERETT — The state Department of Social and Health Services agreed Friday to pay $2.85 million to a boy whose brother was at the center of a high-profile child abuse case in Everett.
The case was scheduled for trial next week in Snohomish County Superior Court.
In 2007, Marilea Mitchell and her live-in boyfriend, Danny Abegg, were found guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court of criminal mistreatment after sheriff’s deputies found Abegg’s son in critical condition from malnourishment.
Prosecutors accused them of starving Shayne Abegg, then 4, to near-death. The state later paid $6 million for a court-monitored trust fund for Shayne.
In a companion case settled Friday, attorneys for Shayne’s older brother argued DSHS also neglected to remove him from a home where he was starved, beaten and neglected from the ages of 3 to 7.
The $2.85 million payout is one of the largest the state has paid for a single child victim, the attorneys said.
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