NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – An Algiers family is taking its case to Orleans Parish Civil Court after its daughter was hospitalized for lead poisoning this summer.
Olivia and Alika Yuen filed their lawsuit on Wednesday (Aug. 7), alleging The Crescent School, its landlords, the Santa Maria Benevolent Association of Algiers, and the Louisiana Department were negligent in the poisoning.
The lawsuit lays out how the two-year-old attended The Crescent School for a year before doctors found dangerously high lead levels in her blood during a routine check-up…