The family of 19-year-old Ryan Lim alleges that his mother, Renee Lim, contacted the office last December to see if her missing son had died.
SAN DIEGO — The family of a man whose body was in the custody of the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office for five months filed a legal claim Tuesday alleging that the M.E.'s office failed to promptly identify him, leaving his family to believe he remained missing.
Though she continued searching for her son, it wasn't until April of this year that Lim was identified. By that time, his body"had been left to deteriorate to a `distressing' condition," according to the claim. Representatives from the county did not immediately respond to comment on the claim, which seeks $5 million in damages, representing $1 million for each month Lim remained unidentified. The claim also requests that the county audit the Medical Examiner's office.
"Ms. Lim's pain was exponentially multiplied by her ultimate realization that, during the entire time that she was searching for Ryan, his body lay alone and disregarded by the Medical Examiner, reducing daily to a distressing condition that robbed her not only of the chance to see her son's face one last time, but also of the peace of laying him to his final rest in a timely manner after his death," Greenberg continued.
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