PHILADELPHIA — Responding to a furor over their wrongful-death suit, lawyers for the estate of a disabled girl who died of starvation said Monday they did not sue Philadelphia officials in an effort to enrich the parents.

The lawyers say the suit against the city's child-welfare agency and others is to benefit Danieal Kelly's 11 siblings, eight of whom are now in foster care.

However, the lawyers said at a news conference parents Andrea and Daniel Kelly could win damages if they are cleared of criminal and neglect charges in their daughter's death.

The parents pledged to turn over one-third of any settlement a judge might award them to the siblings, lawyers Brian Mildenberg and Eric Zajac said.

The lawyers demanded an apology from Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who called the suit "insane, obscene and disgusting," and from District Attorney Lynne Abraham, who suggested the "money-grubbing" parents want to get rich.

Abraham's office issued the harrowing, 258-page grand jury report last month that charged the parents, four city social workers and three family friends with criminal wrongdoing. Andrea Kelly, 39, is charged with murder, while noncustodial father Daniel Kelly of Darby is charged with child endangerment.

Danieal Kelly, 14, who suffered from cystic fibrosis, was denied food, water, medical care and education, and was overlooked by case workers assigned to monitor the family, the report charged. She weighed just 42 pounds and had bone-deep, maggot-infested bedsores when she died in August 2006 in her mother's squalid home.