Grandpa Sues Hospital for $25 Million After Granddaughter Dies of Fake Illness
Lonnie Gautreau has a score to settle. His 7-year-old granddaughter, Olivia Grant, died in 2017 after being treated for an illness she may not have had. Grant’s mother, Kelly Turner, was arrested two years later for murder after police alleged that she lied about her daughter’s illness.
Now, Gautreau and several other family members are suing Colorado Children’s Hospital for $25 million for treating Grant, even though it seems she wasn’t sick.
Suspected Child Abuse
Records show Turner first brought her daughter to the hospital to be treated for constipation in 2012. Grant went on to visit the same facility 1,000 times over the next five years.
Gina Kolata, The New York Times
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Between late February and mid-March of 2020 hotline tips to ChildLine, Pennsylvania’s 24-hour hotline, fell from 17,693 calls to 9,068, according to data provided by the state Department of Human Services. When schools closed and daycares closed, child abuse reports to ChildLine in Pennsylvania and across the United States dropped precipitously, said Dr. Lori Frasier, a Penn State Center for the Protection of Children. The concern was that these mandatory reporters weren t there to see if children were being harmed.
Lebanon County Children and Youth services received 2,328 total reports of child abuse and neglect in 2020, according to county officials.
Less than ideal parenting doesn’t equal child abuse | Opinion
Updated Apr 12, 2021;
By Dr. Benjamin Levi
Young children need to be protected from abuse. But child abuse investigations are not necessarily benign and shouldn’t happen when there’s little chance that a child has been abused. Finding just the right balance is as challenging as it is important. This is why U.S. Representative Susan Wild (D-PA) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) are sponsoring bipartisan legislation, the Jenna Quinn Law, to channel funds to train those who work with children on how to prevent, recognize and report child abuse.
In Memoriam: Frances Degen Horowitz, President of The Graduate Center from 1991 to 2005
Frances Degen Horowitz
The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Past President and Professor Emerita
Frances Degen Horowitz, who died on March 15 at age 88. A prominent child psychologist, Horowitz served as The Graduate Center’s president from 1991 to 2005 and remained a member of the faculty until her retirement in 2010. She is widely admired for having the conviction and determination to move The Graduate Center from its original space in an office building on 42
nd Street to its current location in the landmark former home of the B. Altman & Company department store at 34