A 17-year-old Native American girl’s pleas for medical care were allegedly denied for weeks by her boarding school until she eventually collapsed and died on Dec. 20, NBC News reported, citing school staff members.
A 17-year-old Native American girl’s pleas for medical care were allegedly denied for weeks by her boarding school until she eventually collapsed and died on Dec. 20,reported, citing school staff members. Those in charge at Diamond Ranch Academy in Hurricane, Utah, allegedly told Taylor Goodridge to “suck it up” and take an aspirin, as they assumed her repeated reports of throwing up and feeling ill were a bit to receive attention or miss class.
NBC’s report says Diamond Ranch Academy, a school for at-risk youth, limits who students can speak to outside the academy while attending, so she wouldn’t have been able to alert family to her deteriorating condition without permission.
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