By WXTK News
Feb 17, 2021
A medical malpractice tribunal is ruling that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a Cape Cod woman who died by suicide at the Barnstable County Jail can move forward.
Jessica DiCesare of Centerville killed herself while in jail on charges of receiving stolen property, driving violations and drug possession in 2017.
The tribunal found there was enough evidence to raise liability questions with the psychiatric services company that was hired to handle mental health cases at the correctional facility.
BARNSTABLE A medical malpractice tribunal determined there is enough evidence to proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a woman who hanged herself at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in 2017.
The tribunal ruled last week that there is “sufficient evidence to raise a legitimate question as to liability appropriate for judicial inquiry” for Correctional Psychiatric Services, the third-party vendor that was hired to handle mental health cases at the jail, and several of its employees, in the case filed by the estate of Jessica DiCesare.
DiCesare, a Centerville mother of two, died by suicide in 2017 at the jail in Buzzards Bay while she was awaiting a hearing on charges of receiving stolen property, driving uninsured and without a license and possession of class C and E drugs.