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Date Published: 12/10/2022
ARCHIVED - European Court rules Orihuela family be compensated a decade after death of girl, 6, from artificial respirator failure
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled the Spanish Government must pay the child's family 32,000 euros
The mother of a 6-year-old girl from Orihuela, Alicante province, who died as a result of artificial respirator failure three years after a road accident in 2010 is to be compensated 32,000 euros following a Strasbourg court ruling.
Judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favour of Garrido Herrero, who denounced the Spanish justice system for failing to properly investigate the cause of her daughter Marina's death.
The child was left quadriplegic after the traffic accident in March 2010 and was connected to a ventilator, but as a result of a failure in the assisted breathing system, she fell into a coma and died in 2013. The faulty respirator was found to be the cause of her passing.
In their ruling, the European judges pointed out that the investigation lasted five years and was finally abandoned in 2019 when the deadline given for the determination of those causes of death was exceeded and the time for establishing possible criminal liability had expired.
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