Mother, 32, who became face of Chicago
Teachers Union's push to keep schools
closed after they claimed she died of
COVID caught from student actually DRANK
herself to death, medical examiner reveals
Daily Mail (UK), by Melissa Koenig & Harriet Alexander
Original Article
A Chicago mother who the teachers' union claimed died when a COVID-positive student was sent home to quarantine as they rallied for more COVID protocols actually died of alcoholism, it emerged on Monday. Denisha Henry, the 32-year-old mother of an eighth-grade student at Jensen Elementary Scholastic Academy in the East Garfield Park district of Chicago, died on September 24. The day before, Shenitha Curry, 44, had died of pneumonia from COVID, with diabetes and hypertension as contributing factors. She was not vaccinated. Soon after, the Chicago Teachers' Union claimed at a rally that both mothers caught COVID from a child at the school, where 11 out of 17 classrooms were in quarantine.
But according to a Cook County Medical Examiner's report obtained by Chicago City Wire on Monday, Henry actually died of chronic ethanolism - a term coroners use to describe someone who died of alcoholism.
Now, parents in the Chicago Public School system say the teachers' union should be ashamed for misrepresenting her death in an effort to deride the school system for its handling of the pandemic.
'My God, the burden they placed on those young children who lost their mothers. Telling them basically you killed your mothers by going to school,' one parent, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution, said.
'Shame on them. This proves they'll stop at nothing to get what they want.' |
