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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Suicide watch

ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit found that a private psychiatric facility and its employees may be liable for failing to prevent a teen’s suicide because they knew the girl was suicidal and saw her take something “bunchy” to the bathroom where she hung herself.

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