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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicoll Parton the parents of a four year old

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Speaker 2: little girl in Alabama are expressing their concern after their

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Speaker 2: daughter spent days in the ICU due to a dangerously

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Speaker 2: high blood alcohol content zero point two nine to be exact.

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Speaker 3: This happening while the little girl was at school. Mary Singleton,

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Speaker 3: the girl's mother, remembers the alarming moment she picked her

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Speaker 3: daughter up from school on Monday, describing her as limp

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Speaker 3: and unresponsive. The school had informed the Singletons about their

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Speaker 3: daughter's condition. Just two minutes before the end of the

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Speaker 3: school day. In the nurse's office, Mary observed her daughter drooling,

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Speaker 3: barely alive extremely heavy, prompting a teacher to recommend maybe

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Speaker 3: immediate medical attention. The family quickly took their daughter to

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Speaker 3: the hospital, where she received care and was admitted to

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Speaker 3: the ICU at Children's and Women's Hospital in Mobile. Medical

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Speaker 3: professionals determined that the girl had consumed a significant amount

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Speaker 3: of ethanol, with her toxicology report revealing the concerning blood

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Speaker 3: alcohol level for reference. If she were legal driving age,

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Speaker 3: her blood alcohol concentration would be nearly quadruple the legal limit.

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Speaker 3: The circumstances surrounding the girl's ingestion of ethanol is still unclear.

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Speaker 3: Ethanol is commonly found in various household products, skincare, hand sanitizers, perfumes,

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Speaker 3: and alcohol. The Singletons reported that their daughter was dropped

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Speaker 3: off at school that morning and was perfectly fine, but

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Speaker 3: now they are left with many unanswered questions. Albert Singleton,

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Speaker 3: the girl's father, expressed the emotional turmoil of witnessing his

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Speaker 3: daughter being carried out of school and they still don't

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Speaker 3: know the full story, he says. He spoke to ABC seven.

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Speaker 4: Is it really hard to deal when you see a

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Speaker 4: child walking in school and being carried out?

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Speaker 3: You know, idea what's going on? Authorities from Prichard Police

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Speaker 3: are currently looking into the matter and say the investigation

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Speaker 3: is ongoing. The school has yet to provide a statement

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Speaker 3: for Crime and Justice News after this. A teacher from

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Speaker 3: Georgia has received a monumental seventy million dollars settlement. It

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Speaker 3: took ten years after a felled medical treatment resulted in

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Speaker 3: the amputation of both of her legs. Jessica Pwell's life

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Speaker 3: changed drastically in twenty thirteen when she collapsed at home

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Speaker 3: due to a combination of hormone deficiency disease and a

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Speaker 3: stomach virus. This incident led her to being rushed to

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Speaker 3: the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany for urgent medical care. Tragically,

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Speaker 3: the treatment she received was mishandled, resulting in the loss

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Speaker 3: of her legs above the knee at just twenty eight

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Speaker 3: years old. Powell contended that her amputations were the direct

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Speaker 3: consequences of a reckless overdose of medication given by her doctors,

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Speaker 3: and just now a court has sided with her. On

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Speaker 3: April twenty three, a jury in Daughterary County took only

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Speaker 3: thirty minutes to decide in favor of Powell now forty,

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Speaker 3: awarding her seventy million dollars. This payout ranks among the

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Speaker 3: largest in Georgia's history for a medical malpractice case. That

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Speaker 3: should tell you something you need to know about what's right,

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Speaker 3: stated Matt Cook, one of Powell's lead attorneys, in an

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Speaker 3: interview with the Atlanta Journal. After a thorough review of

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Speaker 3: two and a half weeks of evidence, the jury determined

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Speaker 3: that the responsibility rested on doctors Joe Morgan, James Palazio,

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Speaker 3: and Thomas Ungerino, along with the Aubani Pulmonary and Critical

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Speaker 3: Care Associates and Aubany Vascular Specialist Center. Cook expressed confidence

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Speaker 3: in the verdicts, saying we knew from day one that

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Speaker 3: our was clearly mistreated by her physicians. The case was

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Speaker 3: fueled by the medical team's repeated denials and their refusal

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Speaker 3: to accept any responsibility. Powell was admitted to Phoebe Memorial

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Speaker 3: Hospital in March twenty thirteen after her collapse, only to

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Speaker 3: be confronted with a severe diagnosis of sepsis and shock.

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Speaker 3: During her treatment, the doctors administered an excessive dose of vasopresin,

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Speaker 3: which is two and a half times the maximum's safe

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Speaker 3: amount for an individual over a forty hour period. Vasopresent

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Speaker 3: works by constricting blood vessels, and Poll argued that the

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Speaker 3: overdose led to a critical decrease in blood flow to

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Speaker 3: her legs and feet, depriving them of oxygen. When complications arose,

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Speaker 3: Doctor Morgan reportedly neglecting her care as blood flow began

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Speaker 3: to return to her body after the medication was removed.

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Speaker 3: What was intended as a life saving treatment ultimately resulted

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Speaker 3: in the loss of both of her legs. Following this incident,

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Speaker 3: a legal battle ensued between Pal's leaking team and the hospital.

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Speaker 3: That battle lasted twelve years. Those implicated consistently denied any

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Speaker 3: wrongdoing throughout the litigation. The healthcare professionals maintained that they

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Speaker 3: did adhere to acceptable standards of care, although Powell's legal

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Speaker 3: team contradicted that one doctor attempted to evade responsibility by

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Speaker 3: claiming that Powell's legs were already damaged prior to her

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Speaker 3: arrival at the hospital. The jury ultimately assigned fifty percent

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Speaker 3: of the blame to Morgan and Albany Vascular Specialty Center,

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Speaker 3: and the remaining responsibility split between the doctors and Albany

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Speaker 3: Pulmonary Critical Care. Although the hospital was cleared of liability

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Speaker 3: by the jury, they had previously settled Powell's claims against

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Speaker 3: them before the trial began. In response to the verdict,

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Speaker 3: attorneys for the doctor's and associated medical groups expressed their

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Speaker 3: admiration for Powell's legal team and the judge's management of

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Speaker 3: the trial. They acknowledged the tragic and highly complex medical

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Speaker 3: emergency and said unfortunately, the resulting bilateral above the knee amputations,

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Speaker 3: while devastating, were in unavoidable consequences To save the woman's life. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 3: Powell's attorney argue that the jury's verdict illustrates clear wrongdoing

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Speaker 3: on part of all of the medical professionals. Powell's attorney said, quote,

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Speaker 3: Jessica and her sisters are remarkable individuals, and I believe

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Speaker 3: the jury connected with them because they are genuinely good people,

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Speaker 3: and she deserved justice.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg a huge American miscarriage of justice.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look.

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