Tag: Death

The denial of care ended in death — the person’s own, by suicide, medical neglect, exposure, or violence, or the death of someone else in the path of an untreated crisis. The outcome that cannot be undone, and the one earlier treatment existed to prevent.

NJ-2023-11-23

When parents sought psychiatric help for their son in crisis, systemic failures prevented proper intervention. Hours later, both were killed.

CA-2025-07-27

Irma Perez Espinoza. 43 years old. Sat in a drainage ditch with no food or water. Not important enough to help.

NC-2025-08-22

A man in psychosis asked for help and was arrested. Now, charged with murder, he’ll finally receive treatment — to make him competent enough to be tried, and possibly executed.

ME-2026-05-04

Untreated psychosis met criteria for intervention and yet care was denied. Armando Negrete deserved better. So did Marlene McNeill.

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