2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:51:49 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Infant death at Ft. Bragg (NC)
 
Infant death: A Fort Bragg mother is consumed by the search for answers

By John Ramsey

Fayetteville Observer (NC)
April 20, 2011

Brittany Garza fed 4-month-old Jaxson early on the morning of Feb. 24.

...

She didn't know, until friends began to tell her, that 11 other babies who had lived in Fort Bragg housing had died since 2007.

She didn't know about the investigation into their deaths, the hundreds of environmental tests searching for any problems that could be causing infants to die on the Army's largest installation.

She didn't know, when someone handed her a letter from the garrison commander declaring all the homes safe a week before Jaxson died, that she'd soon disagree with him, with investigators, with everyone who believes her house was safe.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/04/20/1086712?sac=Home

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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