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Kentucky Lexinton NewsSHELBYVILLE — Nearly four months after her death, the family of a Salvadoran immigrant who hanged herself from her jail bunk bed as she waited for deportation said their final goodbyes.
The service had been delayed because of a series of investigations surrounding Ana Romero Rivera's August death.
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According to federal regulations, Romero should have been held in the Franklin County jail for only 48 hours for immigration officials to pick her up or release her from custody. Instead she was held for nearly two more weeks.
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Romero, who agreed to be deported after she pleaded guilty to possession of a false ID card, was found late Aug. 21 hanging by a sheet from a top bunk in her cell at the Franklin County jail, Cleveland said. She was pronounced dead early the next day at a Frankfort hospital. The state medical examiner's final autopsy report said that she hanged herself and died of asphyxiation.
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