The mother of a high school student who collapsed and died after a football game was only notified of the death of her son via Facebook.
Jackie Barden was not by her 16-year-old son's death Ridge at a high school football game told because they are not listed as an emergency contact.
Her ex-husband, whom she is not on "speaking terms" with the boy and emergency contact information, not even telling her.
"On facebook, the news, that's how I learned of my son's death, 'Miss Barden told WSYR-TV.
But when the news finally reached her, she says, she be the last opportunity to view the body of her son was told passed.
At the time came, the police in the boy's death on 14 October, they had assumed that all of Ridge family had been notified.
As a divorced and not disclosed in the list as emergency contact for her son, but Ridge's father, who was named as the contact person was, but he never notified them.
"If the people that it made not that there is an estranged spouse or a parent who does not speak to, be, and it need not be a spouse, it can be a parent, child, sister, brother, someone" Cortland County Coroner Kevin Sharp told WSYR-TV, "we do not know who to contact."
Police Chief Dan Mack says he regrets the assumption about the family notification, and that further steps be taken to prevent it happening again are made.
"I would hope that people begin to realize just one glance and that things change, so no other parent have to suffer and go through what I have been through, 'said Ms Barden.
Autopsy results showed that Ridge died from blunt force trauma.
Reduce to the field, he died later in hospital.
Speaking out, the other players on his team and the university opponents this evening, hoping Mrs. Barden possible guilt or responsibility for his death will be felt dismissed.
"He just did not want to explain that people think that it was her fault, 'Ms Barden.
"It was just an accident. All that Ridge did he did with a full blast. I would say that you take this attitude with you," insisted Mrs. Barden.
Ridge's father released a statement about the loss of his son, WSYR he was too emotional for an interview.
"I have no words now. My world was destroyed. But, I want to say thank you to all who have written me and send your prayers for me. October 14 will go down as the worst day of my life. I do not know what I Ridge do without you. I love you so much and can not even understand that you are not here, "wrote his father.
"It's still shocking," Ms. Bard said. "He is with us and he's gone."