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$2.5 million awarded in lead-paint lawsuit

November 5, 2009

A city jury awarded more than $2.5 million Tuesday to a pair of siblings who were poisoned by lead-based paint while living in a West Baltimore rowhouse that their mother had been told was “lead safe.”

The siblings, Dontae Wallace, 20, and Searra Wallace, 17, have permanent cognitive and behavioral disabilities that stem in part from being exposed to lead paint in the house their family rented from City Homes Inc., a nonprofit organization, for four years in the early 1990s, medical experts said in court.

Tiffini Wallace, the siblings’ mother, was 19 when she learned that her 4-year-old son had been exposed to lead in a house the family was renting at the time. She enrolled Dontae in a lead-paint abatement study run by Kennedy Krieger Institute Inc. and moved to the house on Booth Street in an effort to protect her son and daughter from the dangers of an element that for decades was a common ingredient in paint.

 

Read Article: Baltimore Sun

 

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