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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A girl who contracted HIV when she was sexually assaulted by a city-approved caregiver will get up to $5.35 million in damages.
The city and several agencies placed the girl, then 8, with a convicted bank robber who had previously been charged with sexually assaulting a stepson. The man, John Lyles, was the father of the victim's half-sister.
In civil settlements, the girl, now 16, will get $3.5 million from the city; $1 million from Tabor Children's Services, a private foster-care and adoption agency; and $850,000 from the Defender Association of Philadelphia, the girl's legal advocate.
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