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SAN DIEGO - In a just-filed legal claim, a grieving mother alleges the San Diego County Medical Examiner's failed to identify her son for 5 months, leaving loved ones to believe he was missing all that time.19-year-old Ryan Lim, who had arrived in San Diego months prior to attend a recovery program for a fentanyl addiction, stopped returning the calls of his mother Renee, who lives in the Bay Area.
A month after Ryan went missing, Renee says she contacted the Medical Examiner's Office and described her son's 4 distinctive tattoos. She says an administrator told her there was no one matching her son’s description. That heartbreak is part of a legal claim filed by Ryan's family, alleging the M.E.’s Office didn't do enough to identify her son's body.Her lawyers call it a shocking level of incompetence.
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