State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Lee

BOOTH, Judge.

This cause is before us on appeal from a final judgment entered on a jury verdict against the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (hereinafter “HRS”) for damages arising from its alleged negligent supervision of D.L., a resident of Sunland-Marianna who became pregnant while in HRS’ care.

*305The facts are essentially undisputed. D.L., a 40-year-old severely retarded woman, gave birth to a normal child in 1988. The father and the circumstances of the child’s conception are not known. Based on a medical approximation of D.L.’s date of conception and its own records, HRS…