sent from Utah's Department of Health and Human Services to Diamond Ranch Academy in Hurricane. The"therapeutic boarding school," which serves troubled teenage girls, charges tuition at upwards of $12,000 a month.
Taylor Goodridge died of peritonitis, an infection of abdomen tissue, followed by sepsis, which caused her organs to fail in December 2022 at Diamond Ranch Academy in Utah. Goodridge complained about feeling sick and vomiting for weeks before she died, her family's attorney said.reportedly told the victim that she was pretending to be sick and told her to"suck it up." They eventually recommended drinking water and taking aspirin.
"It's something that's easily treated with antibiotics, especially with a healthy 17-year-old," attorney Alan W. Mortensen of Mortensen and Miline previously told Fox News Digital."The first signs of peritonitis are vomiting and stomach cramps, both of which Taylor had for… at least two-and-a-half weeks before she died."