Payout for US detainee who miscarried after police stopped for coffee on way to hospital
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from US news | The Guardian on (#631VF)
Southern California officials agree to pay Sandra Quinones, who went into labor while detained in local jail, $480,000
Southern California government officials have agreed to pay $480,000 to a woman who went into labor while detained in a local jail and then lost her baby after the guards stopped at a coffee shop while taking her to the hospital.
The payment - designed to settle a federal wrongful death lawsuit pursued by the mother, Sandra Quinones - was approved at a 23 August meeting of the Orange county board of supervisors, according to the minutes of the panel's session that day.
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