An Essex County judge on June 7 approved a $10.5 million settlement on behalf of a child who was allegedly brain damaged due to oxygen loss when she was trapped in a motorized parking-lot gate.

According to the suit, Chambers v. 440 Elizabeth Avenue Corp., Aniyah Chambers was playing outside her father’s apartment at 440 Elizabeth Ave. in Newark on May 6, 2006, when the lateral moving gate trapped the 7-year-old and cut off her breathing for an unknown period of time.