A Bronx family is moving to file a lawsuit after they say police left their teenage daughter alone in a cell with a sweater even after she told them she was suicidal, and did not intervene when she hanged herself.
The family filed legal papers Friday asking for a court order to compel the NYPD to preserve and turn over all records related to the case.
In a petition filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, attorneys for Saniyah Cheatham’s family wrote that the NYPD’s failure to address the 18-year-old’s mental health conditions or monitor her while in custody “directly resulted in her untimely death.”…