San Diego County to pay nearly $15M to family of pregnant woman who died in jail 5 years ago
Hindustan TimesSAN DIEGO — San Diego County will pay nearly $15 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a 24-year-old pregnant woman who died in jail after a sheriff's deputy and a medical worker watched her collapse in a cell five years ago. San Diego County to pay nearly $15M to family of pregnant woman who died in jail 5 years ago The settlement reached Friday night after lengthy negotiations between the county and relatives of Elisa Serna came just weeks before the case was set to go to trial. “These things do not change the fact that Elisa is never coming back.” San Diego County will pay $14 million, while the Coast Correctional Medical Group, which provides medical professionals to treat people in jail, will pay $1 million, the newspaper said. Earlier this year, the jail nurse who responded to Serna's collapse was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the November 2019 death at Las Colinas Detention Facility in the San Diego suburb of Santee.
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