FILE - In this April 24, 2014 file photo, Tarshia Williams displays a pendant with her daughter, Talia's face on it outside of a federal courthouse in Honolulu. The U.S. government will pay Williams from Atlanta, $2 million for the Hawaii beating death of her 5-year-old daughter at the hands of a former soldier. The settlement amount was announced Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at a brief hearing in federal court in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Sam Eifling, File) (The Associated Press)
HONOLULU – The U.S. government will pay an Atlanta woman $2 million for the Hawaii beating death of her 5-year-old daughter at the hands of a former soldier.
The settlement amount was announced Tuesday at a brief hearing in federal court in Honolulu.
Tarshia Williams filed the lawsuit against the government over the 2005 death of her daughter, Talia. The lawsuit claims the military didn't report to the proper authorities that Talia's father and stepmother "abused and tortured" her throughout the seven months she lived in Hawaii.
In what was the first death penalty case to go to trial in the history of Hawaii's statehood, Naeem Williams was convicted of murder in his daughter's death and sentenced to life in prison.
A non-jury trial was scheduled for June in Tarshia Williams' lawsuit.
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