Netted-bed death comes to court

The family of a mentally retarded young woman who died in a netted bed in a Prague psychiatric hospital is demanding an apology for the way in which she was treated by the staff. Her family told the court that she was barely ever let out of the netted bed, kept sedated for practical reasons and had repeatedly been found naked and struggling to get out. The woman died in 2006 after chocking on her own feces. At the family’s request the cause of her death was investigated by police, but the case was shelved for lack of evidence that it had been caused by negligence. The family is now demanding an official apology which the hospital management has so far refused to give.