Man awarded $400,000 in wrongful death suit
The Autism News | English
INDIO — A jury Monday awarded $400,000 in damages to a man whose 5- year-old disabled daughter drowned at a children’s center while taking part in an after- school program.
Anyah Raven Glossinger was found submerged in a mineral pool, where she was taking part in hydrotherapy, at the Angel View Crippled Children’s Center in Desert Hot Springs on Jan. 23, 2008. The youngster, who was autistic and legally blind, died the next day.
Her father, Michael Glossinger of Mill Valley, filed a wrongful death suit in July 2008 against Angel View Crippled Children’s Foundation, the Palm Springs Unified School District, three people who had worked with his daughter and United Cerebral Palsy of the Inland Empire, which operated the program.
The jury voted 9-3 to award Glossinger $40,000 in damages for past loss of companionship and $360,000 for future loss of companionship.
Anyah, who was diagnosed with low-functioning autism, was in a special education kindergarten class at Cielo Vista Elementary in Palm Springs at the time of her death, which Desert Hot Springs police investigators deemed accidental. She lived with her mother in Cathedral City.
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