Hat tip to Emperor Misha I at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:
From the Sun-Sentinel:
In January, 1-year-old Joey Cosmillo wandered into the backyard and fell into the family pool. When his mother hauled him out, he wasn’t breathing. Rescuers were able to bring him back to life, but he suffered severe brain damage and cannot walk, talk or even swallow.
Now, his family faces another burden: One of the rescuers, Casselberry police Sgt. Andrea Eichhorn, is suing, alleging the family left a puddle of water on the floor that afternoon, causing her to slip and fall.
The boy’s grandparents, named in the suit, are mystified and angry.
The family left a puddle of water on the floor? You mean the puddle of water coming from the dripping body of their 1-year-old son after rescuing him out of the pool only minutes before?
The baby’s mother was the only one home Jan. 9, when the boy slipped out of the house and wound up in the pool, according to a police report.
She plunged in and dragged him out, carrying him inside, down a hallway and into a bedroom. She also called 911.
Eichhorn arrived a few minutes later. As she stepped into the room where rescuers were working on the boy, she slipped and went down on one knee, then stood back up, according to Richard Cosmillo.
Later that day, she went to an emergency care center and eventually to an orthopedist, according to her attorney, David Heil.
While she was on medical leave, Pavlis said, the city’s insurer paid her medical bills and provided disability checks.
Eichhorn, a 12-year department veteran, would not discuss the suit. Her attorney said those benefits, paid by the city’s workers’ compensation carrier, were not enough. The suit seeks an unspecified amount of money.
“The loss we’ve suffered, and she’s seeking money?” said Richard Cosmillo, 69, the boy’s grandfather. “Of course there’s going to be water in the house. He was sopping wet when we brought him in.”
Eichhorn last week sued Richard Cosmillo; his wife, Maggie Cosmillo; and the boy’s mother, Angela Cosmillo, accusing them of negligence. They were careless, according to the suit, and allowed the home they shared to become unsafe.
As a consequence, Eichhorn broke her knee, something that kept her off the job for two months, according to police Chief John Pavlis.
Oh poor, poor Sgt. Andrea Eichhorn; she got a broke knee. What about little Joey Cosmillo?
Joey now lives in a nursing home five miles away, where he gets 24-hour care. He breathes through one tube. He’s fed through another.
“He doesn’t have any abilities — any,” his grandmother said. “He can’t sit. He can’t swallow. He can’t eat. We’re not even sure he can see.”
I’ve noted here before that not only are the police under no legal obligation to protect you (as has been confirmed by the US Supreme Court), you are apparently supposed to be under a legal obligation to protect them. If a cop runs in your house it’s your DUTY to protect them from harm, not their duty to protect you from anything.
Damn. Just damn. Talk about a soulless schmuck.
Said, quite eloquently, by ACLPoo:
“I hope this witch gets herpes, then cancer, then AIDS, falls on the other knee, spilling her vodka and 7, and her lawyer slips on it, hitting his head on her table, sues her for everything, she runs out of money and can’t afford medical care, has to sell her ass on the streets, gets addicted to crack, gives her lawyer AIDS and herpes, falls into traffic in a crack-induced stupor, a bus rolls over her pelvis, she gets infected after surgery, has to shit in a bag for a month in agonizing, humiliating pain, goes blind, gets molested by a horny orderly, goes catatonic, then gets punched in the face every morning until she dies after 2 months. Her organs are donated to science, a doctor cures what ails that little boy who fell into the pool, he recovers, and walks up to her grave on his prom night, and pisses 12 imported beer on to her gravestone.”
I’m off to the range.
Joey Cosmillo, Casselberry, Andrea Eichhorn
