Family Sues School After Staff Allegedly Told Daughter To 'Suck It Up' As She Was Dying
perezhilton.com[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] A family is suing a school in Utah after they allegedly failed to take her seriously during a medical emergency that lead to her death. Taylor Goodridge, a 17-year-old student at a boarding school in Hurricane, Utah, tragically collapsed and died right before Christmas.
According to a lawsuit filed by the Goodridge family and obtained by The US Sun, Taylor had complained to staff at Diamond Ranch Academy as far back as November that she was suffering from “intense abdominal pain”.
It’s unclear if the parents knew about her complaints or took her to a doctor, but the very next month the pain would become “excruciating” to the young girl.
The court docs allege the staff at the school “ignored” Taylor’s complaints of how severe her pain was — even going as far as telling the student: The docs also state school officials told the poor girl to “suck it up” when she was in such awful pain.
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