BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A judge has granted a motion brought by four defendants and dismissed them from a federal lawsuit filed in connection with the disappearance of Orrin and Orson We…
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Judge dismisses 4 from $100M federal West boys’ lawsuit
A judge has granted a motion brought by four defendants and dismissed them from a
federal lawsuit filed in connection with the disappearance of Orrin and Orson West.
U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez last week dismissed Kern County Human Services, its former director, Dena Murphy, social worker Anna Zavala-Garza and Kim Johnson, director of the state Department of Social Services, from the lawsuit filed by
Ryan Dean and Dana Moorer, the boys’ biological mother and grandmother.
Mendez found the statute of limitations had passed and that Dean and Moorer’s attorneys failed “to provide any factual specificity of how each (defendant) contributed to the alleged abuses,” according to the ruling filed last week.
The judge also stayed the case against against the remaining defendants,
Trezell and Jacqueline West, the boys’ adoptive parents, for 120 days pending their sentencing.