A woman who claimed her foster parent abused her more than 50 years ago has agreed to a $6.75 million settlement with New Jersey in her Middlesex County suit. The accord was struck in the wake of a $25 million verdict in a similar case handled by the same lawyers.
In Taylor v. New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, plaintiff Juanita Taylor claimed she was sexual abused by a foster parent, Joseph Salmon, daily in May and June 1972 when she was 9 years old and placed in a foster home in Egg Harbor, according to plaintiffs lawyer Matthew Bonanno of Rebenack Aronow Mascolo in New Brunswick. Bonanno represented Taylor along with Vincent Nappo of Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala in Seattle, Washington.
