Earle v. State

¶ 1. Plaintiff Nathan Earle appeals from a summary judgment order entered in favor of defendant Vermont Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services [SRS].1 Plaintiff claims that SRS was negligent in both placing and failing to remove or control a foster child in plaintiff’s grandparents’ house, and, as a result, the foster child sexually abused him. Plaintiff further claims that SRS was negligent in failing to remove him from his own household despite evidence of physical abuse by his mother. SRS challenges plaintiff’s claims on numerous theories, including lack of duty and sovereign…