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Liam Buckler

Girl, 17, dies after school staff 'trained to assume students will lie about illness'

Staff at a boarding school who were "trained to assume students will lie about being ill" ignored a teenage girl's sickness, it is claimed.

Taylor Goodridge, 17, collapsed and died on December 20 at the Diamond Ranch Academy in Hurricane, Utah, US, after suffering crippling stomach pain.

Her dad Dean Goodridge, from Washington, has launched a lawsuit against the boarding school alleging staff dismissed his daughter's "serve" stomach pain.

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