Shippensburg, PA – The widow of a Shippensburg man who died of meningitis days after a state trooper left him lying on the floor of his bedroom has filed a $27.5 million lawsuit against the trooper, his commander and the state police, saying the trooper’s inaction led to the death.
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Linda “Yaffa” Brautigam filed the suit in U.S. Middle District Court, saying Trooper Kirk Perkins’ inaction when he left Chaim Brautigam lying on the floor with three children in the house was “so egregious as to shock the conscience and all sense of decency.” Chaim Brautigam, 48, died in Chambersburg Hospital of bacterial meningitis March 17, 2008, three days after Perkins left him alone with his three children ages 7-10 while Linda Brautigam was out of the country.
The suit says Perkins came to the home after the Brautigams’ 7-year-old son was found wandering three miles from his home looking for a supermarket. The child told him his mother was away and his father was blind and urinating on himself, the suit says.
Perkins found Chaim Brautigam lying face down on the floor moaning, asked the children if they needed anything and left, the suit says.
I’m usually against suing because most of the time it’s someone trying to make a quick buck, which we all end up paying for one way or another. Howevver, in this case, according to the story, please sue for all you can get, they deserve it.
This is hard to believe. If tru they should charge the cop with negligent homocide.