Disneyland employees laughed at disabled woman who fell exiting ride, died 5 months later, lawsuit alleges - Fox Business

The household of a disabled woman, 66, who died 5 months aft suffering a autumn connected the Jungle Cruise thrust says Disneyland employees laughed astatine the parkgoer portion she struggled to get retired of a boat, according to a wrongful decease lawsuit. 

Joanne Aguilar, 66, visited Disneyland successful August 2021 and opted to thrust connected a regular Jungle Cruise vessel with the assistance of her daughters erstwhile parkland employees said that a wheelchair accessible vessel wasn’t available, according to the suit filed successful Southern California past November. 

When Aguilar was trying to exit the vessel astatine the extremity of the thrust the suit says she mislaid her equilibrium and fell back, breaking her leg.

It besides alleges that employees placed astatine the exit of the thrust to assistance riders retired not lone didn’t assistance her but laughed arsenic she struggled to get up the boat’s steps. 

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Joanne Aguilar fell portion exiting the Jungle Cruise thrust successful August 2021.  (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"My clients went to Disneyland with the hopes of creating life-long blessed memories and alternatively are near with the representation of a deficiency of dignity and respect for their parent which yet led to her last demise," the family’s lawyer Michael Jeandron told the Southern California News Group. "Two daughters are heartbroken, healing and seeking accountability for Disney formed members who laughed astatine their struggling parent alternatively of helping her."

The suit says employees "placed tiny unsecured blocks connected apical of the existing steps wrong the vessel to trim the tallness of each step" arsenic she was exiting the boat. 

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"Exiting the vessel was much hard arsenic it required her to propel her assemblage upward with her little legs, which owed to her disablement was not possible. The conflict was apparent, and Disney formed members began snickered [sic] and giggling arsenic they watched Ms. Aguilar effort to safely exit the boat," the suit says, which made Aguilar autumn backwards and interruption her leg. 

She was rushed to a hospital, underwent country and past spent the adjacent 5 months astatine a rehabilitation installation She contracted an corruption and died of septic daze successful January of past year.

The suit names the Walt Disney company, Disney’s taxable parkland part and Disneyland. ((Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images via Getty Images) / Getty Images)

The lawsuit, which names the Walt Disney company, Disney’s taxable parkland part and Disneyland, alleges wrongful death, a usurpation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and seeks monetary damages for pain, intelligence suffering, humiliation, aesculapian costs and ceremonial expenses.

The suit was filed past November and was assigned a justice successful a Santa Ana tribunal aboriginal January. 

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Disney denied that it discriminated against Aguilar successful immoderate mode and said that her injuries were caused by her ain negligence successful a written tribunal effect successful precocious December. The institution is seeking a assemblage trial. 

Disney didn't instantly instrumentality FOX Business' petition for comment. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.