Jailed mom who hid child she said was molested receives $300,000 OK DHS settlement

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Oklahoma pays $300,000 to settle federal lawsuit against DHS

The state of Oklahoma has paid $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a mother who hid her young girl after DHS workers rejected her concerns the girl had been molested.

Misty Lynn Williams spent almost 14 months in the Sequoyah County jail in Sallisaw to keep secret her daughter's location.
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“I would sit here until I die if I have to,” she told The Oklahoman in 2005.

“It was a long time but it was worth it,” Williams, now 33, said in December of her jail stay.
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The mother alleged the girl's father and other relatives molested the girl. She alleged doctors in 2002 found the girl, then 4, had genital warts, which is often a sexually transmitted disease.
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Her chief accusation was that a rogue DHS worker covered up evidence of her daughter's molestation because the worker was friends with her ex-husband's influential family. She alleged the worker told a counselor, “They're just trying to frame an innocent man.”
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much more at Daily Oklahoman link above

 

[mysteriew]

In the last three months, the state has paid almost $1 million to settle lawsuits involving the Department of Human Services, records show.
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[AnaTeresa]

Wow. What is wrong in Oklahoma?