A San Antonio woman who suffered a seizure and slipped into a coma after she was given lithium treatments while in custody in 2020 has been given a settlement from Bexar County and University Health totaling $175,000, public records confirm.
Heather Aguilar, who spent 46 days in Bexar County custody on assault charges eventually dismissed by prosecutors,
Responding officers arrived to find a driveway full of items that had been thrown around and broken and were told that neighbors had held Aguilar down after she damaged some property. Aguilar was moved into a holding cell without a toilet and eventually defecated on herself after deputies ignored her pleas to use a toilet, the suit stated. Deputies did not give her a chance to clean herself before she was moved to suicide watch, according to the lawsuit.
“There is a culture or a practice or custom in that area, which is basically people are ignored,” Aguilar’s attorney, Leslie Sachanowicz, said during a 2021 interview with KSAT. After Aguilar was returned to jail, her treatments of lithium and antibiotics continued, records show.
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