Family members of the 2 Oklahoma school college students who declare they have been drugged on a dream trip to a Cancun resort slammed allegations from Mexican officers that their horror story is made up.
Stephanie Snider dismissed officers’ assertation that Zara Hull and Kaylie Pitze have been simply too drunk and had clear toxicology reviews.
“There was not even a toxicology report accomplished on Zara on the hospital in Mexico. Kaylie was not taken to the hospital and subsequently didn’t have a toxicology check carried out both,” Snider, the mom of Hull’s boyfriend, Jake, wrote on Fb Thursday.
“Additionally they claimed to have reached out to the households. We weren’t contacted. They even mentioned it didn’t occur in Cancun. They have been staying in Cancun, I can guarantee you. They went on to say different issues which might be additionally false,” she continued.
Snider added that the Mexican officers’ response “doesn’t shock me” as their story may negatively affect the nation’s tourism business.
Hull and Pitze, who each attend Oklahoma Christian College, have been staying in Cancun for a four-day journey with their boyfriends once they went to the resort’s pool bar on Aug. 2 and ordered a glass of water.
Quickly after, they slumped over in an intoxicated daze, a disturbing picture of the younger ladies sitting within the pool exhibits. They started experiencing jerking actions and have been wheelchaired again to their resort rooms, unable to stroll or converse, their households mentioned.
Hull’s panicked boyfriend, Jake Snider, rushed her to an area hospital the place she was positioned on a ventilator, given a catheter and put underneath heavy sedation.
Stephanie Snider suspects that the scholars might have been focused for trafficking.
Nevertheless earlier this week, Raciel López Salazar, the pinnacle of the State Lawyer Basic’s workplace (FGE), mentioned an investigation revealed neither of the scholars had medicine of their system.
“There was no drug dealing right here in Quintana Roo with fentanyl,” he insisted in a press release.
He added that the case has been “exaggerated and classifies it as easy alcohol consumption.”
Native authorities additionally discovered that the ladies weren’t staying in Cancun as reported, however relatively at a resort in Isla Mujeres — simply off the coast of the town. Salazar additionally claimed their drug assessments got here again clear.
The State Secretary of Tourism, Bernardo Cueto, referred to as it a “very uncommon case and a really unusual scenario that’s being investigated.”
He additionally mentioned he had approached the US Consulate to contact the scholars’ households however acquired no response.
Snider mentioned the scholars’ “story could be very actual.”
“We refuse to stoop to the extent of those accusers and have this argument. We don’t should,” she added.
Hull and Pitze and again dwelling in Oklahoma feeling higher and recovering however “are combating emotional points from not having the ability to keep in mind what occurred to them however but reaping the unwanted side effects,” Snider mentioned.
They nonetheless have ongoing points with “psychological readability and bodily stamina” and have suffered from bouts of despair, she mentioned. Even her son remains to be coping with the stress of coping with such an emergency abroad.
“They’ve such robust assist from household and mates and are coping with these points as they arrive,” she mentioned.
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