A woman with intellectual disabilities choked to death on a waffle at a Northeast Philly group home

Article by Harold Brubaker. originally published on April 23, 2023 on the Philadelphia Inquirer

Paula Freid choked to death at breakfast Easter Sunday last year while a caregiver allegedly watched her back from the next room at a Northeast Philadelphia group home.

The 63-year-old with intellectual disabilities had a swallowing disorder and needed to have her food pureed or cut up into small pieces. Plus, her caregivers were required to watch her while she ate.

She died with bits of waffle pulled into her lungs, and an empty stomach.