Three days after arriving, she said she felt her water break weeks before she was expected to give birth. McElroy, who was being held on charges stemming from an allegation of substance use during pregnancy, later discovered she had suffered a pregnancy complication that could have progressed into sepsis. According to the lawsuit, she informed a guard that her water had broken and believed she would be taken to a hospital for treatment. Instead, the complaint states that another guard who checked on her later that morning accused her of wetting herself and instructed her to return to her cell.