The widow of a Shippensburg man who died of meningitis days after a state trooper left him lying on the floor of his bedroom has filed a $27.5 million lawsuit against the trooper, his commander and the state police, saying the trooper’s inaction led to the death.
Linda “Yaffa” Brautigam filed the suit in U.S. Middle District Court on Friday, saying Trooper Kirk Perkins’ inaction when he left Chaim Brautigam lying on the floor with three children in the house was “so egregious as to shock the conscience and all sense of decency.” Chaim Brautigam, 48, died in Chambersburg Hospital of bacterial meningitis March 17, 2008, three days after Perkins left him alone with his three children ages 7-10 while Linda Brautigam was out of the country.
The suit says Perkins came to the home after the Brautigams’ 7-year-old son was found wandering three miles from his home looking for a supermarket. The child told him his mother was away and his father was blind and urinating on himself, the suit says.
Perkins found Chaim Brautigam lying face down on the floor moaning, asked the children if they needed anything and left, the suit says.
(Source: PennLive.com)
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A quick Google search reveals that “Chaim Brautigam” was a rather strange “messianic” and a ger lo tzedek at that. Sometimes Hashem has unusual shlichim who make sure reshoim get their appointed time and place in the boiler room.
Really? Point one out, please. All I see is that he changed his name from Curtis to Chaim when he worked for the Israeli government, in Israel, for a few years.
A600KiloBear: A quick Google search doesn’t tell you anything about a person. Whatever happened to avoiding lashon hara, or, for that matter, simply refraining from speaking about something you don’t know about?
I knew Curtis/Chaim well; he was a long-time friend. We didn’t agree on everything. But he was a good friend, a good husband, a good father, & a good man.