The family of a Texas toddler who strangled in a backyard soccer net are suing the ecity of Murphy, its police officers and a private ambulance company, saying they didn’t do enough to treat their son, and instead considered their home a crime scene. Matthew Cantrell, 21 months-old, somehow became entangled in the net in 2007, and was discovered by his mother after she awoke from a nap. Neither a Murphy police dispatcher or a dispatcher for East Texas Medical Center gave her CPR instructions, and arriving police treated the incident as a crime scene instead of aiding the boy. Paramedics were able to revive the boy, but he died several days later. Read more about the lawsuit here, and download (pdf) the full lawsuit here.
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