SAN DIEGO — The young son of a woman who died at the Las Colinas Detention Center for Women is taking legal action against San Diego County and the Sheriff's Department claiming jail guards refused to perform CPR on the 25-year-old woman for 12 minutes as she lay dying.
The minor son of Vianna Granillo filed the necessary paperwork to file a lawsuit on January 11.
According to the tort claim, obtained by CBS 8, deputies arrested Granillo near San Marcos in July 2022 for violating a protective order which, said the claim, had already expired.
At the time of her death, Granillo struggled with addiction and allegedly had informed jail staff that she was suffering from withdrawals.
The legal tort claim comes after Granillo's family learned from an independent expert that guards did not give Granillo the necessary medication to treat her withdrawals nor did they provide CPR for at least twelve minutes while she was unconscious.
[Granillo's son through his counsel] retained a correctional nursing expert who reviewed the medical records. Based on her review, it was evident that deputies failed to administer life-saving care in the form of CPR for at least twelve minutes," reads the court filing.
In the claim, attorney Danielle Pena, who represents Granillo's young son, stated that Ms. Granillo, "died in jail, in part, because medical personnel failed to administer withdrawal medication, and also in part, because correctional deputies failed to perform CPR when they found her unresponsive in her cell, leaving her without oxygen flow for twelve minutes."
The filings come as Dr. Friederike Von Lintig prepares for trial in a separate jail death at Las Colinas of a 24-year-old woman, Elisa Serna, who died in November 2019. According to court documents as well as a civil lawsuit that the family filed, Serna was sick while withdrawing from heroin while in custody. Despite numerous attempts from other inmates to inform medical staff, nothing was done. According to the family's lawsuit, Dr. Von Lintig believed Serna was faking her illness, thus refusing to provide adequate medical care.
Dr. Von Lintig and nurse, Danalee Pascual, now face involuntary manslaughter charges. Dr. Von Linitg's trial is set for January 17, 2024.
As for the latest case from Vianna Granillo's son, that civil lawsuit with the new allegations that deputies refused to provide CPR to Granillo is expected to be filed in coming months.
