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[hummingwolf]

Baby locked up at Honolulu airport dies

Luaipou Futi and a nurse banged on a locked door at Honolulu International Airport Friday morning and begged for medical help for Futi's 14-day-old son, who had flown here from American Samoa for heart surgery and was becoming distressed in the warm room.

According to Futi's attorney, from the other side of the door, the women heard voices telling them to remain calm.

After 30 minutes in the room, Futi, her son, Michael Tony Futi, and the traveling nurse, Arizona Veavea, were released, attorney Rick Fried said.

City paramedics took Michael to Kaiser Permanente's Moana-lua Medical Center, but he died later that morning. Emergency Services Department officials said they received a call at 6:10 a.m. and the child was taken to Kaiser Moanalua in critical condition.

Autopsy results are pending.

More at the link above, including video. I can't be coherent about this one. (Link via supergee.)

Comments

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

When discussing the possibility/probability and/or improbability of anyone even getting written up over this incident, much less being fired, filkerdave said over in supergee's journal:

I want them to fly Michael Futi's body back to American Samoa, holding him in their lap the entire flight. I want them to have to walk to the cemetery, dig the fucking grave with their bare hands and bury him.

After they swim back to Honolulu, THEN they get fired.

Firing doesn't seem like enough. Jail doesn't seem like enough. But then, nothing really seems like enough in the face of this.