Thread: KY-Officials silent on jail death

Officials silent on jail death
Published by Delano Masseyon September 3, 2008

By Valarie Honeycutt Spears and Steve Lannen

vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com

Officials won’t say what happened at the Franklin County jail last month to cause the death of Ana Romero, a Salvadoran immigrant awaiting deportation.

Family members say that, shortly before her death Aug. 21, Romero was placed in isolation for refusing to eat. Mario Aguilar said Romero, his sister-in-law, had telephoned several times from the jail saying her stomach hurt and she was vomiting.

Matthew Pippin, a Louisville attorney representing the family of the 44-year-old woman, said an autopsy was performed more than 10 days ago, but a preliminary report has not been released.

“We are befuddled about not having preliminary autopsy results,â€

"Pippin said that Romero’s family thinks her religious convictions would have prevented her from committing suicide."

Her religious convictions didn't prevent her from entering the United States as an ILLEGAL! How could her religious convictions be very strong or did she just cherry pick her convictions?

I have read articles in The Lexington Herald-Leader before and it is a very PRO ILLEGAL newspaper.