PENNSYLVANIA COURTWATCH; DISMISSED A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a niece of alleged kidnapper and torturer Linda Ann Weston against the city and a former Department of Human Services worker. In a judgment filed Monday and made public yesterday, U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick ruled in favor of the former DHS worker, Nefertiti Savoy, and the city, and against Beatrice Weston, 23, who filed the suit. Beatrices claims centered on a state-created danger theory of liability, the judge wrote. She contended, for one, that Savoy failed to investigate Linda Westons background, and if she had, she would have learned that Weston had been convicted of murder in the 1980s in a starvation death. Beatrice also contended that Savoy failed in her oversight and failed by representing in Family Court that Beatrice was safe in her aunts home. Surrick, however, wrote that Savoys failures to act do not constitute an affirmative misuse of state authority. This was not a case where Savoys conduct, alone, affirmatively placed Beatrice in a position of danger that she would not otherwise have been in, the judge wrote. Surrick also ruled that because Beatrice failed to make her claim against Savoy, her claim against the city must also be dismissed. philly/philly/news/20150106_Judge_tosses_lawsuit_by_niece_of_Linda_Ann_Weston_against_city__DHS_worker.html#bmtvJgZM280Pk3Md.99 Read more at philly/…/20150106_Judge_tosses_lawsuit_by_ni…
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