A New Jersey family planned to call on the FBI on Thursday to investigate their 18-year-old daughter's death during a class trip to Africa. Classmates from Teaneck High School held a vigil and tree planting ceremony Wednesday night. They remembered Phylicia Moore, whose death in a pool at a hotel in Accra, Ghana, was ruled an accidental drowning.
The girl's parents, Douglas and Lola Moore, question the autopsy findings and want federal agents to step in. Their attorney said they might sue the girl's school district, according to a report from the Bergen Record.
"They haven't been cooperative," the family's attorney, Nancy Lucianna, told the newspaper. "They owe [the Moores] an accounting of what happened to their daughter. The truth will come out."
The school district, however, told the Record that they have been cooperating.
"The district has been forthcoming publicly in discussing this tragic situation and reaching out to the Moore family," the district said in a statement.
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