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A family in California gets $1.6 million for horrible bed bugs that bite their three-year-old son

Speed News Desk 5 April 2018, 16:12 IST

A family in California gets $1.6 million for horrible bed bugs that bite their three-year-old son

In a bedbug case, a family in California was given $1.6 million. Three-year-old Jorge Maravilla son of 34-year-old Lilliana Martinez was permanently bitten by bedbug bites recently. The problem of bedbugs started in the year 2012 when the couple shifted to a new apartment. A few years later after their son was born they discovered that the bedbug had bitten him and he had red spots all over his body, including the face.

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Lilliana Martinez shared that her daughter who was three-month-old was also bitten by the bugs. Later, she filed a case against the owner of the apartment. On hearing this case, a civil jury in ordered the owner of the apartment to pay the family US$1,593,500.

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