A Staten Island mom is making national headlines today after suing the city of West Brighton for $900 trillion, alleging the city improperly placed her two children in foster care.

The $900 trillion figure, first reported by the New York Post, certainly is staggering and the standard response so far has been to treat the lawsuit as something of a joke, focusing on the mother's alleged mental illness.

But I have to agree with the Inquisitr's Kim LaCapria, who says plaintiff Fausat Ogunbayo is actually quite clever in choosing to sue for $900 trillion. After all, how many people would be reading about this story and discussing Ogunbayo's plight had she quietly filed her petition without seeking monetary compensation?

Of course there's no way she'll get a settlement remotely approaching that number, if she is awarded anything at all. After all, the entire U.S. has an annual gross national income of just over $14 trillion. Or, put another way, if Ogunbayo was awarded $900 trillion she'd have enough disposable income to pay off the U.S. national debt several dozen times over.

Ogunbayo sued the city and the Administration for Children's Services (ACS), alleging that both entities violated her and her children's civil liberties by placing them in foster care in June, 2008. In her lawsuit, obtained by The Smoking Gun, Ogunbayo listed her grievances as follows:
"For causing plaintiff substantial economic hardship; for causing plaintiff substantial economic injuries; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff children's Civil Right, 42 U.S.C. section 1983; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff's children, the right to family integrity; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff's children, the right to life, liberty, property and the right guaranteed by statute; for disregarding the probability of plaintiff's children, suffering emotional and mental distress."

The city has not responded to Ogunbayo's lawsuit but contends that she is mentally ill and unable to properly care for her two boys, who are now teenagers.The New York City Law Department released a statement to ABC News, which said, "We are unable to comment on pending litigation.  The amount a plaintiff requests in a lawsuit has no bearing on whether the case has any merit and no relation to actual damages if any."

The state alleges Ogunbayo suffers from hallucinations, refuses mental health treatment and placed her children at risk by leaving them at home for several hours each day. Two of the more specific allegations are that Ogunbayo wrote to her children's former school, insisting that the FBI and Secret Service were after her children and that their skin was becoming darker due to radiation exposure.

However, the state Appellate Division recently threw out a family court finding that Ogunbayo was guilty of neglecting her children. "Proof of mental illness alone will not support a finding of neglect," the court ruled, according to SILive.com

Ogunbayo is representing herself in the case.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mother-sues-city-900-trillion-yes-trillion-placing-213613703.html

Nigerian woman wants to be richer than her country, lol

I heard she's mentally unstable and no lawyer agreed to represent her in the case. 

the entire U.S. has an annual gross national income of just over $14 trillion. Or, put another way, if Ogunbayo was awarded $900 trillion she'd have enough disposable income to pay off the U.S. national debt several dozen times over.

them don jax the woman

She wan buy Africa ? ;d

thank God she is mentally unstable what is she going to use that kind of money for?

Be like say na cocaine give am that inspiration

hahahah, I love dis

We are discussing this topic with the reference 'Nigerian woman. If the name of this woman had anything 'Chi' or 'Chukwu', the entire thread will turn tribal.

Because she sued for $900 trillion, she's unstable? some people self, she knows why she asked for such money = attention to her case, a mentally unstable person won't do that, she did that to be heard by the world just like the news article indicated.

saintneo:

We are discussing this topic with the reference 'Nigerian woman. If the name of this woman had anything 'Chi' or 'Chukwu', the entire thread will turn tribal.

900thrillion! Dat sort of claim can only be made by a mental derange person buh my gross hia, is she been a nigerian. Another image denting.

You guys should look beyond the amount she is demanding for and look at the credibility of her claim and the lawsuit itself. If her rights and those of her children have been violated she deserves a right to have a fiar hearing be compensated adequately for the trauma that has caused not just her but also her children.

They say she is mentally unstable but she gave birth to these kids in her so called mental state and she raised them "in her so called mental state" to a certain age before they got taken from her.

the USA has a national debt of $15trillion , nuff said

Is she for real?
Let's assume she wins the case; how would she get paid?
lol

Where is this woman from?

76Naira:

Where is this woman from?

saintneo:

We are discussing this topic with the reference 'Nigerian woman. If the name of this woman had anything 'Chi' or 'Chukwu', the entire thread will turn tribal.

pls u guys should let the sleeping dog lie. u'll be as much guilty as those tribal bigots if this thread turns tribal

Mr Mustpin, my question is simply rhetorical.
Go check my previous posts & see I am not in the league of tribal bigots. I have no time for that.

Your answer could have been;

"she is surely extraterrestrial" or "that beats my imagination"

Cheers.

mustspin:

pls u guys should let the sleeping dog lie. u'll be as much guilty as those tribal bigots if this thread turns tribal

Ojukokoro is a yoruba word, I wish the lady was a yoruba

i tot d woman is yoruba until i saw her name!, not being sarcastic though

76Naira:

Where is this woman from?

she is ibo na, cnt u see her name!

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$900 trillion only?

I heard the richest person Carlos Slim worths $60Billion. What would dis Nigerian woman wants to do with $900 Trillion?? Nigerians can't just stop disgracing Nigeria & other credible Nigerians

The woman isn't nigerian

sixbon2000:

The woman isn't nigerian

What are the moderators doing while thos scammer is spamming everywhere with Qatar nonsense

silami:

A Staten Island mom is making national headlines today after suing the city of West Brighton for $900 trillion, alleging the city improperly placed her two children in foster care.

But I have to agree with the Inquisitr's Kim LaCapria, who says plaintiff Fausat Ogunbayo is actually quite clever in choosing to sue for $900 trillion. After all, how many people would be reading about this story and discussing Ogunbayo's plight had she quietly filed her petition without seeking monetary compensation?
Of course there's no way she'll get a settlement remotely approaching that number, if she is awarded anything at all. After all, the entire U.S. has an annual gross national income of just over $14 trillion. Or, put another way, if Ogunbayo was awarded $900 trillion she'd have enough disposable income to pay off the U.S. national debt several dozen times over.

4everGod1:

You guys should look beyond the amount she is demanding for and look at the credibility of her claim and the lawsuit itself. If her rights and those of her children have been violated she deserves a right to have a fiar hearing be compensated adequately for the trauma that has caused not just her but also her children.

They say she is mentally unstable but she gave birth to these kids in her so called mental state and she raised them "in her so called mental state" to a certain age before they got taken from her.

honeric01:

Because she sued for $900 trillion, she's unstable? some people self, she knows why she asked for such money = attention to her case,  a mentally unstable person won't do that, she did that to be heard by the world just like the news article indicated.

Thank you folks for your decisive comments. The claim that the woman is mentally unstable is a ploy by the state to throw the case into trash bin thereby justifying their actions against this woman. This sort of manoeuvre is not isolated in court cases. No matter the state influence on this case, I bet she will get a lawyer to represent her, the amount sues for is a sure bait to hook on lawyers. This is the same insane woman who understands the feelings of having her children close to her bossom. [i]In[/i]sane enough to sue the state for $900 Trillion for perceived encroachment on her rights.

The woman no well.

She is getting the attention she needed. Hope she gets some form of compensation.

i am liking de woman, she is getting attention and before yu know it, some lawyer will opt to represent her.

finally they likely will beg to settle outta court.

but de money is makin me dizzy