Mom Blames Toxic Mold In Child's Death

August 3, 2002

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Lawsuit Filed Against Apartment Owner

Posted: 10:39 a.m. CDT August 2, 2002

KINGFISHER, Okla. -- An Oklahoma mother said toxic mold killed her

5-month-old daughter and she insisted her apartment complex did nothing

about it.

Mullins of Kingfisher was raising her daughter in the Meeker Meadows

Apartments. The girl was suffering from symptoms of toxic mold before she

died two years ago.

The medical examiner found that the girl died of bronchial pneumonia, but

recent awareness of toxic mold dangers raised her mother's attention.

" I honestly think it was toxic mold -- day after day -- breathing in the

poison, " she said.

Twenty-one plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit against the owner of the

apartments, claiming that the owner knew about the problem, but did nothing

to fix it.

The owner tested the apartment this week and said he is fixing water damage

under the units.

No tests provide conclusive evidence that the molds are toxic.

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