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New Hampshire Court Awards Olivia Griffin $29.6 Million in Civil Verdict

Her attorney plans to challenge the exclusion of local police from the case after scant criminal sentences for her adoptive parents.

A New Hampshire judge has issued a nearly $30 million judgment against Thomas and Denise Atkocaitis, who are accused of abusing and imprisoning their adoptive daughter, Olivia Griffin, for years.
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Overview

  • Judge John C. Kissinger Jr. granted Griffin $29.6 million on July 8 for decades of abuse and confinement by her adoptive parents.
  • The award builds on approximately $1 million in prior settlements with state child welfare agencies over their failure to act on documented signs of abuse.
  • Griffin endured years locked in a cramped basement “dungeon,” where she faced forced labor, starvation, denial of schooling and psychological torment before escaping in 2018.
  • Denise Atkocaitis pleaded guilty to felony criminal restraint and served no prison time, while Thomas Atkocaitis pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment and served six months.
  • Attorney Michael Lewis will appeal the Superior Court’s decision to dismiss the New Boston Police Department as defendants and will move to collect the judgment.