A federal judge has ruled that a man’s adoptive parents can proceed with a civil rights suit against the city of Philadelphia and a Department of Human Services caseworker under a “state-created danger” theory for allegedly knowingly placing him in a violent and abusive home when he was a child.
According to U.S. District Chief Judge Petrese B. Tucker of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, plaintiffs Michael and Darlene McCready, the adoptive parents and attorneys-in-fact for William Saunders Jr., sued Waymon Womble and the city of Philadelphia for allowing Saunders to live with his biological father and his father’s abusive fiancée when the McCreadys had initially tried to adopt him.
