Mother questions son's death

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque woman is upset after her son died after being released from jail, saying he didn't receive the antibiotics he needed for a MRSA infection.

A bag of her son's belongings was all that Cecilia Tkach was given after she found out her son died on Christmas day whiled staying at La Posada, a halfway house in Albuquerque.

She said that he shouldn't have died the way he did, and she's still looking for answers.

For days Cecelia Tkach has been trying to find her son after she found out he passed way.

Tkach said that medical examiners were completing an autopsy on her son on Friday, and for the following two days she couldn't locate his body.

"Nobody has called me, I do not know where my son is at," she said.

On Sunday night, the Riverside Funeral Home informed News 13 that it had the body.

However, Tkach said her son should never have died this way.

In November, Cecelia's son Thomas was diagnosed with MRSA, a bacterial infection.

She said that he was given antibiotics and was taking them, until he was arrested and thrown into the Metropolitan Detention Center for violating his probation.

"I called his probation officer and said his medication is at the halfway house, you got to take it over there," Tkcah said. "They should have given him his medication."

Tkach said they didn't. 31 days later, he was released on Dec. 23 with another abscess.

So he went to the emergency room, but he wasn't admitted.

"They should have admitted him," Tkcah said.

He was sent back to the halfway house, and the next day he died.

"I told his attorney, I told his probation officer, I tried to do something through MCDC, and then though La Posada and the hospital, and everybody just let him fall, like it was nothing and he died," Tkach said.