Posted on 08/22/2024 10:25:11 AM PDT by DFG
A panicked family spent a year looking for their daughter after a California hospital told them she had checked herself out against medical advice — just to finally find out she’d been decomposing in its morgue the entire time, a new lawsuit alleges.
Jessie Peterson, 31, died at the Mercy San Juan Medical Center, just outside Sacramento, in April last year after admitting herself for treatment for her long-diagnosed Type 1 diabetes, according to a negligence suit filed this month.
Her grief-stricken relatives, however, claim the hospital failed to inform them about her death and instead quickly shipped her body off to its storage facility, where she would lie forgotten in a freezer for months.
They only recently learned of Peterson’s fate after spending a painstaking year reporting her missing to cops, posting flyers, calling friends and canvassing the area she frequented in a bid to track her down, court papers charge.
“Mercy San Juan stored Jessie in an off-site warehouse morgue and she was left to decompose for nearly a year while her family relentlessly inquired about her whereabouts,” the lawsuit states.
By that time, Peterson’s body was “so decomposed that an open casket funeral was not feasible” and her fingerprints couldn’t be obtained for any keepsakes, the lawsuit says.
Her remains were also “so discolored that her tattoos could not be identified,” stated the lawsuit seeking $5 million in damages.
According to the suit, Peterson had checked herself into the hospital on April 6, 2023, after experiencing a flare-up tied to her diabetes — a condition she was diagnosed with at 10 and was regularly treated for.
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The Big Checkout
MORE DEI HIRES?????
THE GENERAL IQ around SACTO isn’t ROCKET SCIENCE territory
Wow, if that’s true there’s no penalty great enough
This is not at all surprising if you’ve been at a hospital recently.
big med has been borked for decades.
They went cheap, I would hit them for double or triple that.
Okay, the diabetic checked into the hospital. What I don’t see in the excerpt is how she died and how the snafu (or coverup) took place.
and her fingerprints couldn’t be obtained for any keepsakes
I've never heard of that.
Notice that an autopsy can no longer be done. I suspect the hospital killed her through negligence and then shipped the body off and then clammed up.
Who would want to keep fingerprints as keepsakes?
I was thinking to use it to unlock a phone.
I know people who are getting tattoos of a loved one’s fingerprints. Or you could have a pendant or a charm made. No thank you, not for me.
Hospital transport units are ridiculous that lost me for hours last time I was in.Never leave a family member alone in a hospital for testing.They will be stuck in a hallway or dungeon somewhere.
My wife makes clay paw prints of our dogs before they go the big dog park in the sky. Never heard of doing that for a human though. Except maybe kindergarten kids.
Evidently many people do. If you do a search there are jewelry companies that will make items for them like legacytouch.com. (Not me Thank You) The only thing I’ve heard of that’s even stranger, at some point you could have the deceased ashes (or a portion of them) made into a diamond that you could set into a jewelry. Check out saintdiamonds.com for further information.
why the fingerprints?
Yes. Most plausible explanation. DEI hiring of doctors and/or nurses that killed her, and conspired to hide the evidence. Remember, not every doctor is an A student, plenty of C average doctors who make mistakes.
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