Brendan James Blum, 14
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There are many questions yet to be answered about the death of 14-year-old Brendan Blum on June 28, 2007 at Youth Care, a private treatment facility in Draper, Utah.The facility, which recently had its license suspended for 90 days, is part of the Aspen Education Group (Cerritos, California) one of the nation's largest providers of education programs for struggling or underachieving young people.
According to the results of an autopsy, the official cause of Brendan's death was determined to be a bowel infarction (restricted blood supply to a part of the intestine) a life-threatening condition that could have been prevented all together had the staff at Youth Care taken Brendan to the hospital when he first became ill instead of placing him alone in a room and leaving him there until the following morning when it was too late to do anything -- except call Brendan's family in California (who had no idea he was even sick) to notify them of his death.
NOTE: Anyone with information pertinent to this case is asked to contact justiceforbrendan@hotmail.com
[Photo Personal Property of the Blum Family and May Not Be Used by Others Without Their Permission]
There are many questions yet to be answered about the death of 14-year-old Brendan Blum on June 28, 2007 at Youth Care, a private treatment facility in Draper, Utah.The facility, which recently had its license suspended for 90 days, is part of the Aspen Education Group (Cerritos, California) one of the nation's largest providers of education programs for struggling or underachieving young people.
According to the results of an autopsy, the official cause of Brendan's death was determined to be a bowel infarction (restricted blood supply to a part of the intestine) a life-threatening condition that could have been prevented all together had the staff at Youth Care taken Brendan to the hospital when he first became ill instead of placing him alone in a room and leaving him there until the following morning when it was too late to do anything -- except call Brendan's family in California (who had no idea he was even sick) to notify them of his death.
NOTE: Anyone with information pertinent to this case is asked to contact justiceforbrendan@hotmail.com
