Costa Rican Woman Sues New Jersey Jail Over
Health Care
A Costa Rican woman who was on an
international most wanted list after a
murder 12 years ago until her arrest in the
United States has filed a lawsuit over what
she says was a lack of health services in a
New Jersey jail, so severe that her advanced
stage of breast cancer went undetected for
months.
A lawyer for Maria Magdalena Pacheco Bolaños,
who is awaiting extradition to Costa Rica to
stand trial as an accomplice to the slaying,
filed suit in federal court in Newark.
Attorney Gil Garcia says that by the time a
judge ordered Pacheco brought to a doctor,
she was diagnosed with an advanced case of
breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy.
A jail spokesman said he would look into the
complaint. He had no immediate comment.
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