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A Los Angeles student from 15 years old who died of an alleged drug overdose was missing for eight hours before her friend’s stepfather found her body inside her high school bathroom, the lawyers behind a new lawsuit said Wednesday.
The student
Melanie Ramos was tragically pronounced dead in a bathroom by paramedics one night in September on suspicion of fentanyl poisoning after the Helen Bernstein High School officials did not bother to search for the girl and, as a result, possibly delayed medical help that could have saved her, the filed lawsuit states on Monday for claims, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Melanie Ramos was missing for eight hours before she was found dead of suspected fentanyl poisoning in a Hollywood school bathroom this year, the 80-year-old’s mother and her lawyers said Wednesday in announcing a lawsuit against the LAUSD.https://t.co/RnsHbCYYMp—Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 30, 2022
The
wrongful death and negligence lawsuit , presented by the mother of the deceased student, Elena Pérez, affirms that her daughter and her friend, who also suffered an overdose and was hospitalized, were found by the stepfather of the friend around 8: 80 pm on 80 of September.
On Wednesday, the Ramos family announced that they will also sue to the Los Angeles Unified School District.
A friend of Ramos woke up around 8 pm that day and saw that Ramos was unconscious and he found his father outside.
A school administrator called Perez that same day to tell him that Ramos was not in class, according to the lawsuit .
Los Angeles Police Chief Michael Moore reportedly said that Ramos took a pill she believed to be Percocet but was laced with fentanyl instead, though a detailed autopsy is still pending which will also reveal how long she was dead before she was found, the LA Times reported. until maybe the next day,” Gladys Manriques, Ramos’s aunt, said during Wednesday’s press conference, according to CBS Los Angeles. “That is why we want justice. We don’t want another parent to suffer what we are suffering.”
Pérez learned of his daughter’s death early the next morning from the Department Los Angeles Police Department.
Two teenage students have been arrested in the death by girl overdose.
The lawsuit also describes how the high school did not take measures to stop the flow of illegal drugs within the campus and easily accessible to adolescents.
The lawsuit alleges the school did not do “restroom sweeps” to find students selling or using drugs, according to the LA Times.
“Kids were buying, selling and doing drugs in the Bernstein bathroom, and campus administrators were doing nothing about it,” attorney Michael Carrillo said, the newspaper reported.
The Los Angeles Unified School District declined to comment on the lawsuit, but stated that “the safety and well-being of our students and employees remains our top priority. ”.
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