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From: Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:39:59 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Teacher from toxic Bronx school (New York) to sue
 
Teacher from toxic Bronx school to sue after losing her baby to birth defect Nancy Tomassi's school, PS 51, was laden with carcinogen trichloroethylene

BY Rachel Monahan

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
December 29 2011, 11:24 AM

A TEACHER WHO worked at a toxic Bronx school lost her baby to birth defects linked to the contamination, she charged Wednesday in legal papers.

In October, five months into her pregnancy, Nancy Tomassi, a fifthgrade teacher at the shuttered Public School 51, learned her baby had a malformed brain, a condition called anencephaly, and would not survive.

The tests done in January showed that the sick school was laden with the carcinogen trichloroethylene, a toxin linked to defects, but failed to warn students or teachers until July.

"The whole tragic nature of the situation was made worse by the fact it could have been avoided if the Department of Education had acted properly," said Tomassi's lawyer Jeff Schietzelt, with the firm Silverson, Pareres & Lombardi. He notified the city of her intent to sue on Wednesday.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/teacher-toxic-bronx-school-sue- losing-baby-birth-defect-article-1.998361


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