By C1 Staff
MONROE, Wash. — The state of Washington has settled with the parents of slain CO Jayme Biendl for $900,000.
According to FOX News, the lawsuit alleged numbers system failures that enabled an inmate convicted of violent rape to work as a volunteer in a chapel and be in position to kill Biendl in 2011.
That inmate, Byron Scherf, was sentenced to die for strangling Biendl to death. He is currently appealing his conviction.
The lawsuit blamed the state and former Monroe prison Supernintendent Scott Frakes for not doing enough to protect Biendl.
“This settlement may bring closure, but it won’y bring Jayme back. There is no amount of money that can replace the loss our family has endured. We have been on an emotional roller coaster these past three years and worry that our mom and dad cannot take the emotions of fighting the state for another two to five years,” Biendl’s siblings wrote in a statement released to The Herald.
“We truly hope and pray that no other family ever has to feel the pain we felt on January 29, 2011,” they wrote.