Doe v. Arguelles

HOWE, Justice:

Plaintiff sued the defendants Robert Arguelles, State of Utah, Ronald Strom-berg, et al., on behalf of her 14-year-old ward who was raped, sodomized, and stabbed by Arguelles, a juvenile, while he was on placement in the community, but before he had been finally discharged from the Youth Detention Center (YDC). The court below granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the grounds that plaintiff’s complaint alleged acts that were immune from suit under Utah’s Governmental Immunity Act, U.C.A., 1953, §§ 63-30-1, et seq., and also shielded by defendant Stromberg’s…