RACINE - Julie Young didn't want to believe her daughter Kieana was gone. It wasn't her time to go. She was only 14 years old.

Her second-oldest child, an eighth-grader, spent the past two days of her life hooked up to a life-support system at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa. Her body was there, but her brain had shut down from a lack of oxygen.

Doctors turned off the life support machine at 9 p.m. Saturday. Julie Young said goodbye for the last time. Now the mother of three is searching for answers.

She claims her daughter didn't have to die. Young blames her daughter's death on the care she received at Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints hospital, 3801 Spring St.

"I want the people to lose their licenses, the people who neglected to care for my daughter," Young said. "I don't want someone else to go through what she had to go through."

Racine County Medical Examiner Tom Terry said Young's case was one of only two in the past five years in which he let pathologists at Children's Hospital conduct the autopsy because he didn't feel there was any wrongdoing or criminal negligence.

Terry's office will review the case once doctors in Milwaukee have signed the death certificate.

"Any time anyone dies unexpectedly, especially someone who is young like this, we're going to be involved," Terry said. "We do a death review on anyone 18 years old and younger."

Terry said he discussed the situation with the Milwaukee County medical examiner, who agreed that Kieana Young's death was more of a medical problem than a criminal problem.

"We would consider it a natural death. She had some pre-existing medical conditions that, for whatever reason, went south," Terry said.

Kieana Young most likely died because her brain wasn't getting enough oxygen, Terry said, but an exact cause has not yet been determined.

There was nothing to indicate that the hospital had done anything wrong, Terry said. Any allegations of negligence on the part of All Saints would have to be determined in a court of law, he said.

A hospital representative said she could not comment on the specifics of the case.

Julie Young has said that she plans to hire a lawyer and is considering legal action against the hospital in Racine.

The past few weeks have been a nightmare for Young, 37. The situation still doesn't make any sense.

She's not sure how she'll come up with the $1,755 it will cost for a plot at Graceland Cemetery, where she wants her daughter buried. It's where Kieana's uncles and her grandfather are buried, Young said.

Overwhelmed, Young is simultaneously trying to plan for her daughter's funeral and understand why she died suddenly. She's also trying to explain the situation to her 7-year-old son and her daughter Dejia, who just went off to college.

Young is trying to come to terms with what she's just been through.

For three weeks, Kieana struggled to breathe, saying it felt like there was an elephant on her chest. Kieana, who suffered from asthma, could not get any relief from her prescription inhaler, Young said. All she wanted to do was sleep. She had missed school enough times that Gilmore Middle School officials started warning her mother.

When she went to school she couldn't stay awake.

Her mother had taken her to All Saints three times, twice to the emergency room and once to the clinic. All three times the family was sent home with a different explanation, Young said.

After the second visit, the doctor had told Julie Young that Kieana had a heart murmur, Young said. It was the first time she'd heard about it, Young said. After that visit, Young said she made appointments for Kieana with three different specialists at Children's Hospital. She was supposed to go to the doctor on Friday.

Kieana's problems didn't get any better, so her mother took her to the emergency room at All Saints again.

After the third visit, Young said she and her daughter were sent home again. Doctors diagnosed Kieana with pneumonia, Young said. It was 2 a.m. on Oct. 1 when they left the emergency room.

Seven hours later, Kieana was in cardiac arrest by the time she arrived at Children's Hospital, Young said. Doctors hooked her up to a heart monitor and discovered that she was suffering from congestive heart failure, her mother said.

Three valves in her heart were leaking, doctors told Young. She had fluid in her lungs and a softball-sized mass of lymph nodes in her chest, which doctors in Racine had described as clouds, according to a chest X-ray they'd taken, Young said.

Hospital officials could not discuss Kieana Young's case, citing federal HIPAA medical privacy regulations, said Jennifer Garbo-Shawhan, an All Saints spokeswoman.

"While we can not publicly discuss this particular situation, we are reviewing all aspects of the case," Garbo-Shawhan said in a statement. "Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family and friends at this most difficult time."