If you were not aware, Kristoff St. John’s Son committed suicide in November of 2014, and here are the details of what happened during this difficult ideal.
Young and the Restless star, Kristoff St. John, made headlines recently after speaking out about his 24 year old son, Julian St. John’s, suicide on Entertainment Tonight. Sadly, his son committed suicide in November of 2014 while he was in a psychiatric hospital receiving treatment for his schizophrenia.
Kristoff told Entertainment Tonight this about the day he got the call about his son’s death: ‘the worst call I had ever gotten in my life’ and ‘every parent’s nightmare.’ He broke down crying tears of extreme pain, which then turned into straight up anger (understandably so) at the alleged negligence he said the hospital showed toward his son. Kristoff is in the process of suing the hospital and from the sounds of it, he should be!
Via TMZ Kristoff St. John is suing the hospital where his son committed suicide — blasting the mental facility for giving him access to the plastic bag he used to kill himself.
The “Young and the Restless” star’s 24-year-old son Julian St. John killed himself in November while getting treatment at La Casa Mental Health Hospital in Long Beach. He was found dead in a bathroom with a plastic bag over his head. The reason for Kristoff’s wrongful death lawsuit — he says his son did the same thing less than 3 weeks before his death … attempting to asphyxiate himself with a trash bag from his room. In the wrongful death suit, Kristoff says after that failed attempt … the hospital never removed the trash bags from his room.
In his lawsuit, Kristoff says there’s evidence the nurses were falsifying records. He says staffers were supposed to check on Julian every 15 minutes because he was a high suicide risk — but records show they were logging welfare checks before they even happened.For instance, Julian was pronounced dead at 1:44 PM, but nurses had already logged 6 welfare checks between 2 PM and 3:15 PM. Kristoff feels the facility was negligent in its supervision of his son — and if the staff had “acted with even the slighted regard for Julian’s safety, he would still be alive today.”
If what Kristoff St. John is saying is accurate, that hospital deserves to close up shop in my humble opinion. It is unacceptable that their staff would not follow proper protocol when they know good and well they’re dealing with a hospital filled with occupants whose psychological states are very delicate. Alleged falsified records and not checking on a suicide watch patient accordingly?!! Something sounds real fishy about this story and I hope Kristoff St. John and his ex-wife, Mia (the mother of Julian St. Jon) can get all of the facts and justice for their son real soon.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Kristoff, his ex-wife and his family.
They said that his son and the roommate were seen entering their room togather and the roommate comes out and julian didn’t come out of the room how do they know that his roommate did not assist him in this death.Something just don’t seem right to me.
They said that his son and the roommate were seen entering their room togather and the roommate comes out and julian didn’t come out of the room how do they know that his roommate did not assist him in this death.Something just don’t seem right to me.
This is very sad and the pain of the father is immense. I feel their pain. Losing a child is a cruel dose of this world. I agree a person should never will in the care of the hospital. I hope they win and I hope they shut this place down. Hospitals seem to be open for the monetary reasons. Sad, sad story.
This is very sad and the pain of the father is immense. I feel their pain. Losing a child is a cruel dose of this world. I agree a person should never will in the care of the hospital. I hope they win and I hope they shut this place down. Hospitals seem to be open for the monetary reasons. Sad, sad story.
I hope he wins against the staff that were supposed to be providing care and protection for his son, but hopefully the hospital will be forced to replace the shoddy staff with a better one, there are not enough places for the mentally ill now and too many of them are left on the streets to languish and die with no family to support their options for care or protection. Thanks to Reagan placing the choice for care in their own hands…how many mentally ill people are lucid enough to voluntarily seek treatment when they are confused about needing care and leery of hospitalization in the first place? With little to no physical inspection to ensure mental health care provision meets quality standards and regulation… some of them are justified in their fear.
I hope he wins against the staff that were supposed to be providing care and protection for his son, but hopefully the hospital will be forced to replace the shoddy staff with a better one, there are not enough places for the mentally ill now and too many of them are left on the streets to languish and die with no family to support their options for care or protection. Thanks to Reagan placing the choice for care in their own hands…how many mentally ill people are lucid enough to voluntarily seek treatment when they are confused about needing care and leery of hospitalization in the first place? With little to no physical inspection to ensure mental health care provision meets quality standards and regulation… some of them are justified in their fear.
Why sue?
Honestly, idk but I guess he was paying for them to do their job and protect their son, I’m assuming they were supposed to watch him 24/7 but what kind of life is that? I don’t think it’s possible to watch someone 24/7 like that unless you jail them and take away everything, I feel eventually he was going to take his life sooner or later, I think it would have been kinda impossible to prevent that UNLESS you had him damn near on lock down.
Why sue?
Honestly, idk but I guess he was paying for them to do their job and protect their son, I’m assuming they were supposed to watch him 24/7 but what kind of life is that? I don’t think it’s possible to watch someone 24/7 like that unless you jail them and take away everything, I feel eventually he was going to take his life sooner or later, I think it would have been kinda impossible to prevent that UNLESS you had him damn near on lock down.