State of Kansas to Pay $1 Million to 7-Year-Old Boy’s Family Years after Murder, Abuse Case
Michael Jones, 50, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison for the 2015 murder of 7-year-old Adrian Jones, who was mentally and physically abused before starving to death and fed to livestock in Wyandotte County. (Screen capture/Kansas Reflector)
TOPEKA/March 13, 2024 — The state of Kansas will pay $1 million to the family of a 7-year-old who was tortured and killed, settling an almost decade-long legal battle over the state’s child welfare agency’s failure to remove the child before his death.
Adrian Jones’ case made headlines in 2015, when his remains were found in a pigsty outside the family’s Kansas City, Kansas, home, after he had been…
