Lawsuit: Care Home Resident Died With Paper Jammed in Windpipe

Cheryl Yewdall, a woman with cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities who died in January 2022, in this undated Yewdall family photo. Yewdall Family/Courtesy of Pepper Law via AP

Cheryl Yewdall spent most of her life at a Philadelphia care home for people with developmental disabilities. It was there, on Jan. 26, that the 50-year-old was found face down on the floor, in a pool of urine, suffocating on a large wad of paper that had been stuffed down her throat.

She died five days later.