Washington state will pay $9 million to a Portland woman who said she was abused for years as a child in its foster care system , adding to the growing number of payouts related to sexual assault in foster care and juvenile detention.

Ashley Miller, 34, alleges she was raped and abused from the ages of 5 to 12 by her foster parent’s live-in boyfriend in Pierce County. Miller sued the department in 2023, alleging the Department of Social and Health Services — the state’s child welfare agency at the time — knew the man was a convicted felon and was negligent in not properly monitoring the conditions in the foster home.

That man, Carlos McFann, pleaded guilty last year to two counts of third-degree rape of a vulnerable adult in Pierce County, but he has not been convicted of assaulting Mi

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