Actually there are numerous facts about the non prosecuted incident, hospital stay and her health in the report.
Fierceton contends, however,that on September 22, 2014, her mother pushed her down a staircase, and then came down the staircase, straddled her, and struck her.
The next morning, on September 23, 2014, Fierceton left the house and drove herself to school. She claimed to fall ill in the school parking lot but made her way into the classroom.
She then collapsed in front of her teacher, and 911 was called. Fierceton told her teacher, a âmandated reporterâ under state law, that she been pushed down the staircase by her mother who, she claimed, had tried to kill her. The incident was reported immediately to Child Protective Services.
Fierceton was taken to the hospital, where she told police that she had a diary and that it contained everything they needed to know. She also told police that âif you find me dead, itâs my mom.â
Fierceton remained in the hospital for twenty-two days, claiming to be suffering from dizziness and an inability to walk.â
Takeaways:
She didnât immediately call the authorities and was able to drive to school the next day (makes the whole blood in hair and face distorted beyond recognition seem unreliable).
Was only escalated once she âcollapsedâ in front of a teacher but oddly in spite of her injuries noted the abuse in her diary.
Her extended stay in hospital (22 days) was based on her assertions of dizziness and inability to walk.
Again I think the entire abuse incident is irrelevant given this is really about her misrepresentations on her applications but this does call into question her grasp on the truth.
The defendantâs reply states the hospital admission was based upon a diagnosis of âunexplained seizuresâ. So not injuries related to abuse. The cousin living in the family home with the woman and mother stated she had never witnessed any abuse and believed the injuries may have been self-inflicted.
The woman had previously accused her mother of drug abuse, which the police investigated and found no evidence of.
There was no prior allegation the mother had engaged in abuse; the visit earlier by child services had related to a messy divorce, her fatherâs actions, and the appointment of a guardian ad litem for her in the divorce case.
Penn did not need to determine whether abuse actually occurred to determine they had been lied to.
Interesting that some share that medical records were attached to plaintiffâs complaint, yet no reference to those medical records was made in the body of the complaint. Very odd.
Below is the firm profile of plaintiffâs attorney.
Nice profile photo. Nothing says âI am serious about seeking justiceâ like brandishing a baseball batđ. I guess a tube sock filled with soda cans wouldnât have been as photogenic.
Actually, no, most of those are not facts. Those are claims made by Fierceton. They may or may not be true.
The only facts are that she had a long hospital stay and that she reported parental abuse to her teacher who did her duty and reported what she was told. What she told her teacher is not necessarily a fact.
Bingo. (Altho, much of this is confidential and can only be released by the Plaintiff.)
Much of the story described in the Pillow Talk article (that you have referenced several times) was Denied by Penn in their written response to the complaint. Now, Penn could be lying, but that would not be smart in a legal doc submitted to the Court.
It seems to me that her biggest mistake was winning the Rhodes rather than the Marshall scholarship (according to the Penn documentation she applied for both). Marshall winners donât get anything like the same publicity and it was only the press reports in her home town around the Rhodes scholarship that brought this all to light.
The denials were craftily worded. They have 2 choices - admit or deny. Much of it is definitional, wording, insufficient information, etc. weâll see how it shakes out.
I wonder who we could cast to star as MF? Young, pretty, driven. Someone not satisfied with merely getting an Ivy undergrad and grad degree( for free) on false grounds but who reaches for the brass ring of the Rhodes only to watch it all collapse.
It is apparently a fact that the Morrison household was visited by Social Services when MacKenzie was younger than when the hospitalization occurred.
It is also a fact that she was removed from her motherâs home and placed in a foster home. And that she spent half of her high school career either in foster care or on her own but no longer in the care of her mother or any other relative.
It is a fact that another student died in the basement classroom and that MacKenzie was removed for medical reasons from that same classroom.
Itâs a fact that MacKenzie is a witness in the Driver case.
Come on. I could continue. There are a whole slew of facts. And the facts about her hospitalization are the least relevant. Her claim is that she was retaliated against for her involvement in the Driver case. Thatâs what at issue.
