New York to Pay $10 Million in Woman’s Death After Abuse in Group Home NYT | Top Stories By: Hurubie Meko and Benjamin Weiser 20 December 2024 at 07:11 The state in 2019 paid a $2 million abuse settlement. In retaliation, staff members withheld the victim’s medicine, and she died in a hospital. © Demetrius Freeman for The New York TimesThe allegations of what occurred within the walls of the brick building that housed 24 developmentally disabled residents were staggering.