Interesting Lawsuit

This will be a "must follow" for us:

• The family of an 11-year-old Chicago boy murdered last year by his mother’s ex-boyfriend the day after he was released from prison is suing the state — including the embattled Prisoner Review Board and Illinois Department of Corrections— for negligence.

We would add Fata$$ to the lawsuit since he appoints the Review Board people, and appoints the IDOC administration, too.

• Jayden Perkins, an accomplished young dancer, was stabbed to death last March while his mother, Laterria Smith, sustained “multiple life-threatening stab wounds to her neck, back, and chest while desperately trying to protect her children,” according to one of the lawsuits she filed last week. Smith was pregnant at the time, while her then-5-year-old son witnessed the stabbing.

  Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the attack last week, Smith filed a pair of complaints — one against the PRB in the Illinois Court of Claims and another in Cook County Circuit Court. The latter lawsuit names not only the PRB, but also its former chair and another member who resigned after the murder, plus an executive director appointed in the aftermath.

  Additionally, the suit names IDOC, its acting director, the city of Chicago, the Chicago Police Department, Cook County, its Sheriff’s Department and elected sheriff. The filing claims that together, the defendants represented a system that failed to prevent Jayden’s death.

As we recall, the murdered stated to anyone who would listen that he was going to kill her and the IDOC, Parole people, and Review Board refused to hold him in custody. A judge actually refused an Order of Protection saying it wasn't an emergency, because the offender was currently in custody....but was due to be released at any moment because that seems to be IDOC's only function - emptying prisons.

Suing CPD seems a stretch as we can only take action regarding active court orders (which weren't issued by the other parties) or arresting someone in the act of a crime. But Conehead will likely pay out just because burning taxpayer money is his only function.

It would almost be a comedy of errors, except for the dead kid.