Woman says hospital lost her missing daughter’s body for a year
A woman in California said her daughter died at Mercy San Juan Medical Center and the hospital lost her body for more than a year.
In a negligence lawsuit, Ginger Congi claimed her adult daughter, Jessie Peterson, suffered from Type I diabetes and was being treated at Mercy San Juan in April 2023. She was admitted to the hospital, where her mother would last see her alive.
After a few days of silence, Congi called Mercy San Juan only to be told her daughter had been discharged. The hospital had no other information as to Peterson’s whereabouts.
In a panic, Congi began looking for her daughter, filing a missing persons report with the police and putting up flyers all over town. Unfortunately, Peterson was never found—until her body was found in April 2024, a year from the time she went missing, in cold storage at Mercy San Juan.
A death certificate for Peterson was never properly filed, Congi and her attorney alleged. They are seeking damages.
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