[CPEO-BIF] Teacher from toxic Bronx school (New York) to sue

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Teacher from toxic Bronx school to sue after losing her baby to birth  
defect
Nancy Tomassi's school, PS 51, was laden with carcinogen  
trichloroethylene

BY Rachel Monahan

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
December 29 2011, 11:24 AM

A TEACHER WHO worked at a toxic Bronx school lost her baby to birth  
defects linked to the contamination, she charged Wednesday in legal  
papers.

In October, five months into her pregnancy, Nancy Tomassi, a  
fifthgrade teacher at the shuttered Public School 51, learned her  
baby had a malformed brain, a condition called anencephaly, and would  
not survive.

The tests done in January showed that the sick school was laden with  
the carcinogen trichloroethylene, a toxin linked to defects, but  
failed to warn students or teachers until July.

"The whole tragic nature of the situation was made worse by the fact  
it could have been avoided if the Department of Education had acted  
properly," said Tomassi's lawyer Jeff Schietzelt, with the firm  
Silverson, Pareres & Lombardi. He notified the city of her intent to  
sue on Wednesday.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/teacher-toxic-bronx-school-sue- 
losing-baby-birth-defect-article-1.998361


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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