A family is suing a local hospital after they say a doctor decapitated their child during birth.
The family’s lawyer announced the suit against Southern Regional Medical Center, the hospital where 20-year-old Jessica Ross went into labour with her first child on July 9.
What happened from there is laid out in a lawsuit alleging multiple missteps and an effort to lie and deceive and try to cover up the horrific incident.
“This is one of the most sad, egregious, and horrific situations that I’ve ever seen,” attorney Dr. Roderick Edmond said. “Their hopes turned into a nightmare that was covered up by the Southern Regional Medical Center.”
The lawsuit alleges that after 10 hours of labor, the baby got stuck and that the family’s doctor, Dr. Tracey St. Julian, continued for hours to try to pull the baby out.
According to the lawsuit, doctors “pulled on the baby’s head and neck so hard and manipulated them so hard, that the bones in the baby’s skull, head and neck were broken.”
Hours later, the lawsuit claims that doctors performed a C-section and found the baby decapitated. Instead of telling the couple, the lawsuit says doctors tried to cover up what happened by telling them they didn’t have the right to a free autopsy, encouraging cremation and concealing what happened when they asked to see the child.
This is a fair warning to all you doctors out there!
DON'T TRY TO DELIVER A BABY BY PULLING IT OUT BY ITS HEAD!
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