The state Supreme Court has been asked to reinstate a $166 million verdict against the state in the case of a child severely abused by his father after child-welfare authorities left him in the father’s custody.
The verdict was awarded in 2013 in the case of Jadiel Velesquez, who, at the age of 4 months, was left blind and cognitively disabled when his father shook him with great force to stop him from crying.
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