there are new developments in a story that is heartbreaking. emotionally charged legal and medical battle over a 13-year-old who suffered severe complications after a tonsillectomy. the doctors and a judge have declared her brain dead. under california law, that means she s legally deceased. sunday she left the hospital, more on that from dan simon. she is out of the hospital now still attached to a ventilator, rolling down a dark highway in a private ambulance. her destination is still a secret. her future is just as certain as it was several weeks ago. she is medically dead according to doctors, only a machine can keep her heart from stopping. yet her family has refused to accept it, and even now speaks
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there are new developments in a story that is heartbreaking no matter how you look at is it. the emotionally charged legal and medical battle over 13-year-old jahi mcmath. she suffered complications after a tonsillectomy in california. her doctors and a judge declared jahi brain-dead. under california law, that means she is legally deceased. her family, though, believes otherwise. sunday she left the hospital. more on that from dan simon now. reporter: she is out of the hospital now, still attached to a ventilator, rolling down a dark highway in a private ambulance. her destination is still a secret, but jahi mcmath s future is just as certain as it was several weeks ago. she is medically dead, according to doctors. only a machine can keep her heart from stopping. yet, her family has refused to accept it, and even now speaks
killed. because kwuns you do that, you can t reverse that decision. she was declared dead by two doctors at the hospital. i never heard of complications from a tonsillectomy. that struck me as very unusual. i don t know the details, but you can understand why the parents don t trust this hospital and want to get her transferred after a simple procedure went wrong. and then they re making the decision to end her life. she s in a facility now. and hopefully they ll be providing her the help that this hospital did not provide her, and hopefully we ll see if she has a chance to improve. has the family looked into what potential mistakes the hospital may have made during the surgery, maybe too much anesthesia or something like that? that s for the lawyers to decide, but it s interesting here, it seems to me if there was some time of malpractice, it would be in the best interest
was declared brain-dead. the family is not saying where her body was taken but has now indicated she traveled by land, which sort of suggests she s still in california. they say she is now receiving intravenous antibiotics and supplements while she remains on a ventilator. still big questions about how a tonsillectomy could lead to a girl s death. a mixed martial arts fighter from new mexico is now working on his legal defense after a deadly confrontation with suspected gang members at his home on new year s day. joseph torres lives in las cruces and fought four men who allegedly broke into his home. one of them was found dead nearby afterwards. he had been beaten and stabbed. police initially said they were treating what happened as self-defense, but they won t clear torres of committing a crime, and his lawyer has told his client to stop cooperating. the four men that went to the home were allegedly trying to settle some kind of an argument with the man who lives inside the hom