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Yucaipa School District To Pay $15.75 Million For Student Asthma Death
"You know we send our kids to school and they are supposed to give them back to us, and I didn't get her back," said Edith Sepulveda.
November 18, 2022
The family of a Yucaipa middle school student who died on campus after suffering an asthma attack received a $15.75 million settlement from the school district.
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Attorneys argued the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District was negligent and did not use best practices when it comes to documented student medical conditions.
Nicole Comstock reports that on Oct. 31, 2019, Mesa View Middle School student, Adilene Carrasco,13, complained she was not feeling well while at school. She told her teacher and was permitted to walk from an athletic field back to the classroom for her inhaler. After using it, Carrasco said she still did not feel good. She headed to the nurse's office and by the time she got there, she was in full respiratory distress, lost consciousness, and went into cardiac arrest before paramedics arrived. Carrasco died nine days later.
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