The State has been or­dered to pay more than $2.5 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to the moth­er of a do­mes­tic vi­o­lence vic­tim who suc­cess­ful­ly sued over the au­thor­i­ties’ fail­ure to pro­tect her daugh­ter from her abu­sive ex-boyfriend.

In May 2024, High Court Judge Robin Mo­hammed up­held the land­mark con­sti­tu­tion­al claim brought by Tot Lamp­kin, of Up­per L’Anse Mi­tan Road, Care­nage, against the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

While Jus­tice Mo­hammed ruled that Lamp­kin, who is the guardian of her daugh­ter’s now 12-year-old son, was en­ti­tled to com­pen­sa­tion, he as­sessed the quan­tum in a writ­ten de­ci­sion de­liv­ered last Fri­day.