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Originally Posted by christiangirl
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100701/...irl_settlement
The news reports have raised a lot of questions (and this has been on the news A LOT tonight): Is $20 million a "reasonable" settlement? Should they (Jaycee and her daughters) have received more for how horrible this was? Should they not have been awarded so much because of the state's already massive debt? How can a price be put on such a heinous crime? Discuss.
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This was essentially to pre-empt a lawsuit that she almost certainly would have won but in court and in the public's eyes. She probably could have won more in court but this is enough that she never has to 'want' for life.
And you can't put a price on it, not really. It's enough to hopefully make CA fix their sex offender monitoring so it NEVER happens again. (This isn't so much payment for the crime, it's payment for the failure of the state to track the rapist or to even CHECK his backyard following complaints by neighbors.)
It's up to CA to figure out how to pay for it among their other debts, I suspect they owe schools more than they owe her based on Illinois' own financial woes.