Brett Schreiber, partner at Singleton Schreiber, was recently featured in a CBS News article that covered the background behind the recent civil rights lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court by Singleton Schreiber against the city of Antioch, Contra Costa County, a child care facility, and the parents of O-Y, an 18-month-old girl who died in 2022.
The suit alleges negligence for all the defendants and that there was a history of abuse signs never being reported or acted upon. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of O-Y's surviving older siblings who have since been adopted.
From Mr. Schreiber:
"This child—who was still learning to walk—was brutally tortured and died a horrific death, all because the entire system that was supposed to protect her failed this innocent 18-month-old child."
"While her parents committed the physical abuse that killed her, their abuse was entirely enabled and abetted by social workers, police, hospitals and daycare centers, who should have stopped them. This was a complete dereliction of duty that resulted in the death of one young child and the lifelong loss and trauma for two others.
On behalf of those siblings, we are asking the court not only to compensate them for the life-long emotional scarring they will suffer, but also to punish those who failed to prevent this horrible tragedy so that it never happens again."
