Couple sue doctor after newborn baby ‘decapitated’ during delivery (1 Viewer)

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A couple in Georgia have accused a doctor of using excessive force which allegedly decapitated their baby during delivery.

First-time parents Jessica Ross, 20, and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr, 21, claim Tracey St Julian, an ob-gyn specialist, and staff at Southern Regional Medical Center then tried to cover up the the decapitation by propping their son up to make it appear his head was still attached.

The couple’s attorneys announced they were suing Dr St Julian and the hospital in Riverdale, about 13 miles (20kms) south of Georgia, for gross negligence, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress at a press conference on Wednesday.

“They were so excited about the birth of their first child,” attorney Cory Lynch told reporters.

“Unfortunately, their dreams and hopes turned into a nightmare that was covered up by Southern Regional Medical Center.”

The hospital said privacy laws prevented it from discussing individual patients, but that it denies the allegations in a statement to the Associated Press.

“Our commitment is to provide compassionate, quality care to every single patient, and this loss is heartbreaking,” it said.……

The couple requested a cesarean section, but this was denied and the doctor failed to seek help quickly, according to Mr Lynch.

Dr St Julian then applied “ridiculously excessive force” on the baby’s head to try to deliver it, attorneys said.

The doctor delayed taking Ms Ross for a C-section for three hours, by which time a foetal monitor had stopped recording a heartbeat, according to the suit.

The baby’s legs and body were then delivered by C-section, while the head was delivered vaginally just after midnight on 10 July, attorney Roderick Edmond, who is also a physician, told the press conference.

Doctors tried to convince the couple the baby’s head was still attached by wrapping and propping up his body, the attorneys alleged.

Staff at the hospital allegedly discouraged the couple from seeking an autopsy and advised them to have the boy cremated, the lawsuit claims.

They only realised their baby had been decapitated when they took it to a funeral home, according to the suit.……

Couple sue doctor after newborn baby ‘decapitated’ during delivery

Parents allege hospital staff propped up their baby son to make it appear his head was still attached

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Ye gods...how is that doctor still drawing breath?

 

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I can find no verification as the autopsy hasnt been completed yet, but from experience, it may be an internal decapitation. As in, the baby's skull was disconnected from its spine at the C1 level. Essentially a broken neck. Obviously still a tragedy, and I feel terrible for the parents, but the doctor didnt rip this poor baby's head off as its being portrayed. The baby suffered a severely broken neck in which skin and muscles are the only thing left holding the head in place. It is rare, but it does happen. Mostly with shoulder dystocia or breech births when the baby's head gets stuck in the cervix.

The real malpractice occurred in not performing a C-section sooner and the attempted coverup (if the rest of the article is to be believed, and i have no reason to doubt that part, hospitals are shady).

 

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I can find no verification as the autopsy hasnt been completed yet, but from experience, it may be an internal decapitation. As in, the baby's skull was disconnected from its spine at the C1 level. Essentially a broken neck. Obviously still a tragedy, and I feel terrible for the parents, but the doctor didnt rip this poor baby's head off as its being portrayed. The baby suffered a severely broken neck in which skin and muscles are the only thing left holding the head in place. It is rare, but it does happen. Mostly with shoulder dystocia or breech births when the baby's head gets stuck in the cervix.

The real malpractice occurred in not performing a C-section sooner and the attempted coverup (if the rest of the article is to be believed, and i have no reason to doubt that part, hospitals are shady).

Maybe the article is wrong, but doesn't sound like your scenario to me.

The baby’s legs and body were then delivered by C-section, while the head was delivered vaginally just after midnight on 10 July, attorney Roderick Edmond, who is also a physician, told the press conference.

 

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The death of a baby who was decapitated during delivery was ruled a homicide by a Georgiamedical examiner’s office.

The baby died last July after a physician allegedly applied so much force attempting to free the child from a woman’s birth canal that the child’s spine was completely severed. The finding by the authorities appears to confirm allegations made by the family’s attorneys in a lawsuit filed last Augustagainst the hospital.

“We just want justice for our son,” the baby’s father, Treveon Taylor Sr, said at a press conference on Wednesday in Atlanta. The baby was named Treveon Taylor Jr after his father. “They lied to us, they ain’t let us touch him, we didn’t like it. We just want justice for our son.”


It was the first time the baby’s father has spoken publicly. The baby’s mother, Jessica Ross, was too distraught to speak at the press conference.

“Tragically, during her delivery, the baby was decapitated,” said Dr Roderick Edmond, an attorney on the family’s legal team.

Ross went to the hospital, Southern Regional medical center, about 13 miles south of downtown Atlanta in July 2023, “with the full expectation of having a healthy baby”, said Edmond.

Instead, Ross suffered early rupture of her membranes, and later her baby was trapped in the birth canal because of a shoulder dystocia, a condition where the baby’s shoulder becomes lodged behind the pubic bone.

“The baby was decapitated, for sure, as a result of a complication of the shoulder dystocia, but the standards of care are very, very simple,” for how to treat shoulder dystocia, Edmond said, involving mechanism maneuvers and, if needed, a cesarean section. Shoulder dystocia affects up to 2% of deliveries.

After the complications became apparent, the mother and child were taken into surgery for a cesarean section. Edmond said it is unclear whether the baby was already deceased when Ross was taken to the operating room.………

Death of Georgia baby decapitated during delivery ruled a homicide

‘They lied to us … We just want justice for our son,’ says father of Treveon Taylor Jr, who died at hospital south of Atlanta last year

www.theguardian.com

 

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Go ahead and file this one under things I wish I'd never heard