While we’re looking into exactly what happened with that lawsuit the aggrieved family lodged against Bell-Jeff over their phony Jr. Terrorist case the BPD just lucked out on, we thought it’d be fun to cite the following plaintive note for review.
It was written by a teenage student from the same school– at approximately the same time– who was apparently not getting any help for a serious medical problem the school helped create. So he’s making a plea for attorneys:
I myself a young football player at a Private High School in Burbank Ca ( Bellarmine Jefferson) back in Oct 23 2008 was severely injured during a Football game vs Silver valley High School. I played running back for the Junior Varsity team, i received the ball with a sweep and was tackled but before i could fully get up from push-up formation my elbow was stomped on by the safety on the other team clearly after the whistle blew.. I could not stand up completely and was in total shock because i have never broke any bone in my body i did not understand.. i was on the floor on the field for a total of 15 min before any medical attention.. there was no official medical personal there at the game they said they were in training or something like that… They told me they didn’t know what happened and that help would not be available for two hours,, all i was giving was a piece of cardboard and some cloth. in the mean time.. We were out in the middle of no where.. My Mother drove from L.A to go get me and take me to a hospital, when i finally arrived i was told that i had compartment syndrome and i was 1 -2 hours close of just losing my arm .. i was immediately taken to surgery to save my arm.. it took about 3-4 surgeries for the doctor’s to finally actually find out that my elbow was not just broken ,but it was actually shattered…In the end i have had a total of 10 surgeries in a span on 1 year and half… i also received 3 bone infections from this(maybe hospital??) and my mental state went down the drain.. I’ve never felt so alone in my life..I blame my coach for neglect,, my school barely helped out with anything.. i was given the school insurance paper 3 months after i can use them… Thank God my Mother had insurance because all of my medical expenses has past 2 million on the surgeries alone.. I have seen a couple of lawyers but they all say its a big case just really complicated because u can not see much in the film,, but i have plenty of eye witnesses.. Im just looking for any help.. i finally feel that I’m ready to deal with this and face it head on..If anyone can please help i would truly appreciate it .. please feel free to email me at XXX@XXXX XXXX
Say a good Act of Contrition kid. They got “potential” terrorists over there to worry about. No time for medical care on the field.
Three months too late to use, eh? You should have said you were going to blow up the school.
This is a realy sad story and I feel for this kid. It sounds like Bellermine Jefferson has top priorities but the priorities are not really the kids.
Actually, the new principal seems terrific and they are really trying to improve things. I actually want them to do well. Good luck. I know many of you working there are very decent folks.