SANTA ANA, Calif. (KNX) – A former Orange County inmate who lost her baby will receive a $480,000 settlement after sheriff’s deputies allegedly stopped at Starbucks while taking her to the hospital.
The lawsuit accuses the sheriff’s deputies of “acting with ‘deliberate indifference’” towards former inmate Sandra Quinones, the Orange County Register reported. On Aug. 23, the Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the settlement. The settlement will be finalized once Quinones formally accepts it.
On Mar. 28, 2016, a then-six month pregnant Quinones’ water broke while she was in her cell. No one responded to her for two hours and when someone finally did respond, Quinones was put in a patrol a car.
According to the lawsuit, the deputies stopped for coffee while en route to the hospital.
Quinones was hospitalized; however, her baby did not survive.
That’s a very good result for someone badly treated in the jail,” Dick Herman, Quinones’ lawyer told the Register. “This poor woman, she’s in jail having a miscarriage and, instead of calling an ambulance, they take her to the hospital in a patrol car and the cops stop at Starbucks while she’s bleeding.”
Herman also said Quinones is homeless and mentally ill.
The sheriff’s department has not issued a statement at this time.
Last year, the Orange County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.5 million settlement to a woman who lost her baby in childbirth while she was incarcerated.
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