The family of a man whose body was in the custody of the ME's Office for 5 months filed a legal claim alleging the office failed to promptly ID him, leaving his family to believe he remained missing.
SAN DIEGO - The family of a man whose body was in the custody of the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office for five months filed a legal claim Tuesday alleging that the M.E.'s office failed to promptly identify him, leaving his family to believe he remained missing.
Though she was told no one in their database matched her son's description, Lim's body had already been in the M.E.'s custody for nearly a month at that point, according to the claim, which is a precursor to a lawsuit. "When asked, all the Medical Examiner's office could say was that they did not know why Ryan had been neglected and overlooked for so long and admitted that `this should not have happened,"' the claim states.
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