The plaintiff, Jamyson Harris, filed a lawsuit against Tulare and Kern County in California. Case number 18-cv-00699-LJO-BAM.

The accusations include kidnapping and child abuse.

In the fall of 1991, Jamyson, along with his brother and sisters, were taken to Tulare County Social Services in Porterville, California. For his mother’s roommates. The roommates falsely accused their mother of abandoning and abusing her children. While her mother was out of town, moving into her new home. While living in a foster home with her sisters. Jamyson alleges that he was sexually abused by his adoptive mother. He was then administered heavy psychotropic drugs, expelled, and had to move from one foster home to another. Until he was finally sent to another county in the state of California.

Both Tulare and Kern County do not deny or question what happened so far. Both counties are simply challenging the statute of limitations.

In accordance with Section 911.6 of the Government Code. In some circumstances, a late claim will be granted. My claim qualifies due to circumstances 1-3 of government code 911.6.

(b) The board will approve the request when one or more of the following applies:

(1) The failure to file the claim was due to error, inadvertent, surprise, or excusable negligence and the public entity was not prejudiced in its defense of the claim by not filing the claim within the time specified in Section 911.2.

(2) The person who suffered the alleged injury, damage, or loss was a minor for the entire time specified in Section 911.2 for filing the claim.

(3) The person who suffered the alleged injury, damage, or loss was physically or mentally incapacitated for the entire time specified in Section 911.2 for the filing of the claim and due to said disability did not file a claim during that time.

The plaintiff alleges that they were placed in foster care by mistake and negligence. Because his mother’s roommates lied to the county and the county social workers didn’t do their job.

“They just accepted the lie and forced us to accept the lie.” Jamyson said. “We didn’t know our fourth and fourteenth amendment rights were being violated. We were just minors, defenseless and our mother was gone. No one cared. One side wanted us to leave. The other side was getting a I pay to do it. There is no true due process for our mother, “Jamyson continued.

Jamyson is currently working with his therapist to gather evidence to support circumstance number three. Jamyson claims that he was mentally incapable of filing a claim on time. Because, according to his therapist, the trauma of being kidnapped, sexually abused and receiving the medication. He dissociated himself from what happened and the damage was so serious. By the time Jamyson stopped taking the meds. His memory was so scattered that he had completely forgotten why he was actually in foster care.

What do you think? Do you think the statute of limitations should be lifted? For more information on this case, visit pacer.gov and search for case number 1: 18-cv-00699-LJO-BAM

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