Parent of Victim, Westwood Lodge 2006

“MONIQUE PAYNE: Aug 14, 1991-Feb 11, 2006. Age 14. While she was a patient at the Westwood Lodge psychiatric hospital, Monique Payne complained about headaches of increasing severity. She began vomiting and hyperventilating and begged for help. A Westwood nurse thought she was faking and gave her cold medicine. They were aware Monique had a brain tumor but Westwood Lodge was understaffed and her cries for help were ignored. The pressure in her head got worse and worse for hours without a call to her doctor. It compressed, herniated, her brain stem causing her death. By the time she got to
Boston, she had died from complications of a brain tumor.” - Theresa, Parent of Victim