Broach-Butts v. Therapeutic Alternatives, Inc.

OSTRER, J.A.D.

*30Plaintiffs Wanda Broach-Butts and the estate of her late husband, Theotis (Ted) Butts, allege that defendant Therapeutic Alternatives, Inc., a private social service agency, negligently placed a troubled and dangerous child, D.M., then over fourteen years old, in the therapeutic foster home Wanda and Ted operated, and failed to adequately warn them of D.M.'s history of dangerous behavior.1 Plaintiffs claim that defendant's negligent placement and failure to warn created an ultimately deadly relationship between them and D.M. Fifteen months after D.M. left plaintiffs' home, he…