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The Independent UK
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Jury awards $8.3 million to foster teen's family after his death at juvenile intake center

Foster Teen Custody Death - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Jurors have awarded $8.3 million to the family of a Kansas foster teen who died in 2021 after he was held facedown for 39 minutes in a juvenile intake center while in the throes of a mental health crisis.

Five juvenile officers in Sedgwick County either used excessive force on Cedric “C.J.” Lofton or failed to intervene, the jurors decided Wednesday after a trial in federal court in Wichita.

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