Posted on 08/09/2023 6:56:32 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
ATLANTA (Atlanta News First/Gray News) - A lawsuit filed Wednesday in an Atlanta-area court claims health professionals incorrectly delivered a baby resulting in a decapitation, then tried to cover it up.
The negligence and fraud suit filed in Clayton County, Georgia, names several defendants, including Southern Regional Medical Center, a doctor, several nurses and the medical group at large, according to a statement from the law firm Edmond & Lindsay, LLP.
According to the complaint, 20-year-old Jessica Ross was giving birth July 9 when the baby’s shoulders got stuck in the vaginal canal.
A doctor allegedly performed a cesarean section too late and applied “excessive tension” on the baby’s head, causing it to detach from the body, the lawsuit alleges.
The law firm also said the doctor did not immediately tell the mother and father, Treveon Isaiah Taylor, what happened.
Instead, the hospital staff allegedly refused to let the couple hold the baby after death. They showed the parents the baby wrapped tightly in a blanket with the head propped on top, the statement said.
Additionally, the couple claims in the lawsuit they were pressured by staff to cremate the remains. They were told an autopsy wasn’t warranted.
The couple reportedly didn’t learn about the decapitation until four days after delivery.
“This caused immediate, profound emotional and mental anguish for (the plaintiffs) ... emotional and mental anguish that they continue to experience and most probably will experience for the rest of their lives,” the complaint says.
The complaint asks for compensatory and punitive damages of more than $10,000.
A representative from Southern Regional Medical Center said they are unable to discuss the treatment of specific patients due to health privacy laws, according to a statement from the hospital system.
“Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the family and all those impacted by this tragic event. Our prayers also remain with the dedicated team of physicians, nurses and staff at Southern Regional Medical Center who cared for this patient Our commitment is to provide compassionate, quality care to every single patient, and this loss is heartbreaking,” the statement said.
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Ten Thousand? More like Ten MILLION.
What could possibly go wrong with affirmative action proliferating in medicine.
Very sad.
That’s quite a leap. I’d like some facts first.
Tragic. Sobering.
Prayers.
I would say this is pretty much up there with an abortion.
This is horrific!
“Instead, the hospital staff allegedly refused to let the couple hold the baby after death. They showed the parents the baby wrapped tightly in a blanket with the head propped on top, the statement said. Additionally, the couple claims in the lawsuit they were pressured by staff to cremate the remains. They were told an autopsy wasn’t warranted.
The couple reportedly didn’t learn about the decapitation until four days after delivery.”
What an awful situation although one cannot be sure that what has been described here is exactly how it went down.
However the hospital handled it they screwed up royally and a large settlement is the least they can do.
OMG!
The doc missed the “Do no harm” class.
The delivering doc was their doc and had privileges at the hospital.
https://www.vitals.com/doctors/dr_tracey_stjulian.html
Here she is.
https://premierwomensobgyn.com/about-us/
And did she have prenatal care?
Hey she just received a free abortion. Abortion is health care we are told.
Very sad that its a person/murder only when the woman wants it.
This is no way to have proper objective laws, making women the only class of person allowed to murder another if they are inconvenient.
I thought that’s what forceps are for…..
…..how did this ‘doctor’ manage to decapitate
That doesn’t prove anything. We still need more facts.
A number of years ago I read about a very premature baby who was decapitated when it was delivered breach and the doctor pulled on its body while its neck was trapped in the cervix.
Similar thing here, traction with the head trapped.
Perhaps the baby had already died in utero and its tissues had begun to break down. That would explain the low amount asked in the lawsuit, that the doctor’s actions did not actually kill the baby.
Shniqual Adams
Shniqual
RIP, Little One.
I’ve been told in a similar case that the low amount was a legal placeholder that will be jacked sky high later.
It’s interesting to claim that the hospital caused them extra anguish by covering up what happened. It would hardly have reduced thier anguish to hand them the remains in parts and tell them all about what happened in graphic detail.
Whoever was attempting to deliver the baby might or might not have been negligent at all. This sounds like a very unusual circumstance — way beyond my limited medical knowledge and the lack of objective facts to parse.
It’s a wrongful death suit. The dr and nurses never told her how her baby died, and encouraged her to cremate. The authorities were not notified either.
It was the funeral home who contacted the authorities and told the mother.
Without further facts - and given that the ones we have are even true - it’s the way they handled the aftermath and the parents that really disturbs me.
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