The family of a woman who died last year in a San Diego County jail filed a lawsuit this week alleging jail staff ignored the severity of her declining health,…
The lawsuit filed states that Roselee Bartolacci, 32, had a history of mental illness and"functioned at the level of an eight-year-old and required constant care and assistance from her mother, Roseann Bartolacci"The family of a woman who died last year in a San Diego County jail filed a lawsuit this week alleging jail staff ignored the severity of her declining health, leading to her death less than two months after she was booked into custody.
Bartolacci's mother wanted her daughter to be taken to a hospital or a location where she could receive emergency psychiatric treatment, but instead she was jailed, according to the suit."Despite Roselee's presentation, known history of mental illness and inability to answer questions, medical intake staff deemed Roselee as 'uncooperative' and cleared her for admission to the jail," the lawsuit alleges.
She was hospitalized two more times over the next month and the complaint argues Bartolacci should have been sent to an outside facility to treat her condition.On May 28, she"was found cold and unresponsive in her filthy cell" and pronounced dead shortly after midnight, according to the suit.
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