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“Cumulative Failure” Lets Mentally Ill Teen Leap to Death

A “cumulative failure” contributed to the death of an Oregon teenage mental patient, state investigators determined. Eighteen-year-old Heather Williams was a patient at the Blue Mountain Recovery Center, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Pendleton, Oregon. While being transported on December 13, 2007, Williams leaped from the moving van as it ...

 

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