A Texas mother has withdrawn her federal lawsuit over the death of her 10-year-old daughter, Emerson Kate Cole. The girl suffered a fatal allergic reaction while eating her lunch at school.
Chelsea Kroger Acosta, Emerson’s mom, decided to drop the legal action against the Amarillo Independent School District in light of her mother’s struggles coping with her granddaughter’s death. Carole Kroger, the grandmother, had tried to save the child’s life with CPR during the severe allergic reaction, as firefighters were arriving.
Kroger Acosta “didn’t want to put her through the pain of reliving the details of Emerson’s death over and over again,” the family’s attorney Kevin Isern tells Allergic Living…