Atchley v. County of Du Page

MEMORANDUM

LEIGHTON, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff, a former ward of the state, has filed a two-count complaint against defendant alleging she was deprived of her rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments by defendant’s gross negligence in placing her in a foster care home. She alleges that while in the foster care home, she was sexually assaulted and raped by the son of her foster parents, became pregnant, and gave birth to a child. She asserts defendant has a duty to supervise foster care and that it has a policy of deferring its responsibilities in this regard to…