“Kids would be buying and selling and using drugs in the bathroom at Bernstein, and administrators on campus did nothing about it,” the family’s attorney said.
LOS ANGELES — The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of an overdose in a bathroom at Bernstein High School in Hollywood announced a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District Wednesday, alleging school officials knew there was a problem with drug use at the campus but took no action.
Melanie was found dead on a bathroom floor at the school on the night of Sept. 13, hours after the family claims that school officials realized she was missing. Authorities said the girl ingested a pill she thought was Percocet but was believed to be laced with fentanyl. He found his stepdaughter suffering from apparent overdose symptoms, although she was still conscious and was able to tell him that one of her friends was in a girls’ bathroom, officials said. The man and a school employee found the other girl — Melanie Ramos — unresponsive in the bathroom, where she died.
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