{"id":21107,"date":"2015-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/this-aunt-is-suing-her-12-year-old-nephew-for-173-thousand-dollars\/"},"modified":"2015-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"this-aunt-is-suing-her-12-year-old-nephew-for-173-thousand-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/this-aunt-is-suing-her-12-year-old-nephew-for-173-thousand-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"This Aunt is suing her 12-year-old nephew for $173K"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The reason this woman is suing her nephew will leave you stunned.&nbsp;12-year-old Sean Tarala leapt into his aunt\u2019s arms at his own birthday party&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>He hugged her with such force that she broke her wrist.&nbsp;Now?<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s suing him.<\/p>\n<p>For $173 000.<\/p>\n<p>54-year-old Jennifer Connell claimed she fell and hurt herself when Sean, who was excited to see her, jumped into her arms to greet her, rendering her injured and unable to complete every day tasks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"connell\" title=\"BEST OF THE WEB\" height=\"366\" width=\"650\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5220d2e6527b676eba3f3abee7210bc9.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live in Manhattan in a third-floor walk-up so it has been very difficult. And we all know how crowded it is in Manhattan,\u201d she told a Connecticut court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at a party recently, and it was difficult to hold my hors d\u2019oeuvre plate,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>She relayed to the court the series of events that lead to her injury, explaining she arrived at Sean\u2019s birthday party when he came running towards her yelling \u201cAunty Jen! Aunty Jen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CONNELL\" title=\"BEST OF THE WEB\" height=\"331\" width=\"416\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/connell2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden he was there in the air, I had to catch him and we tumbled onto the ground. I remember him shouting, \u2018Aunty Jen, I love you,\u2019 and there he was flying at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think it\u2019s fair to make a 12-year-old cough up $173 000 for an accidental injury?!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/plane-wreckage-with-pilot-skeleton-and-malaysian-airlines-colourings-found\">REPORTS OF PLANE WRECKAGE WITH SKELETON FOUND IN PHILIPPINES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/inside-the-patrick-dangerfield-deal\">CROWS WERE READY TO LET DANGERFIELD WALK, SAYS CROWS FOOTY BOSS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason this woman is suing her nephew will leave you stunned.&nbsp;12-year-old Sean Tarala leapt into his aunt\u2019s arms at his own birthday party&#8230; He hugged her with such force that she broke her wrist.&nbsp;Now? She\u2019s suing him. For $173 000. 54-year-old Jennifer Connell claimed she fell and hurt herself when Sean, who was excited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-21107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This Aunt is suing her 12-year-old nephew for $173K - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/this-aunt-is-suing-her-12-year-old-nephew-for-173-thousand-dollars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Aunt is suing her 12-year-old nephew for $173K\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The reason this woman is suing her nephew will leave you stunned.&nbsp;12-year-old Sean Tarala leapt into his aunt\u2019s arms at his own birthday party&#8230; He hugged her with such force that she broke her wrist.&nbsp;Now? 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