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Holton Abuse Victim Awarded More Than $100 Million

By Brian Hagen

12/14/2015

Koylen Corbin McKinney

(MSC News)--A two-year-old Holton child, who was 7-months-old when he suffered permanent brain damage and blindness as a result of child abuse, has been awarded $109 million.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the decision was handed down in Jackson County District Court last week.

Ordered to pay the judgment is the young Topeka man convicted of the beating of Romeo Whitebird that happened at a Holton Apartment complex in April 2014.

Koylen Corbin McKinney last December pleaded guilty to aggravated endangering a child, abuse of a child with intentional torture, and aggravated battery.

McKinney, now 19-years-old, is serving a nine-year prison sentence at the Lansing Correctional Facility.

He was the boyfriend of the injured child's mother, Larissa Whitebird.

The attorney for the family tells the newspaper it's unlikely they'll ever see the full amount of the judgment, but royalties paid to McKinney by the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, of which he is a member, are to be secured in a trust fund to pay for medical necessities not covered by insurance or Medicaid.

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