The family of a Washington state mother of 5 with bipolar disorder and psychosis alleges abuse and negligence at a jail she did not deserve to be in led to her death.
Rodriguez had thrown most of the food provided to her in the toilet, due to her mental state. Jail authorities knew she wasn't eating.
The lasting starvation led to"an easily diagnosable and treatable metabolic condition called ketoacidosis," which leads to excessive water intake and fatally low sodium levels. A routine test of her urine, which had already been collected, would have shown"dangerously high levels of ketones and salt."
Instead, in response to Rodriguez's insatiable thirst, jail staff moved her to a cell with no sink. They covered the window so they wouldn't have to look at her, and they put towels in front of her door so that her vomit would not leak into the hallway, the suit alleges."For Damaris, these four days were painful, confusing, and terrifying. What happened in these four days was also easily preventable," her family says.
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