Police are now investigating after a lawsuit alleging a baby was decapitated during delivery on July 9 was filed in Clayton County against Southern Regional Medical Center and others.
The lawsuit claims that Dr. St. Julian did not tell Ross and her family about the decapitation when she spoke to them at approximately 5 a.m. July 10. The lawsuit also claims that the hospital discouraged Ross and the baby’s father, Treveon Taylor, from seeking an autopsy, saying a free autopsy was not an option for them under the circumstances. Instead, they reportedly encouraged the couple to have their son cremated instead of being sent to a funeral home.
WTF
Wow. Shit can happen in medicine but that coverup seems worse than the already terrible situation.
At approximately 8:40 p.m., Ross was fully dilated and instructed to begin pushing. The complaint says the baby stopped descending due to shoulder dystocia while being delivered vaginally and Dr. Tracey St. Julian, M.D., reportedly attempted to deliver the baby vaginally using different methods, including applying traction to the baby’s head.
Dr. St. Julian reportedly decided to perform a STAT Cesarean section at approximately 11:49 p.m. The baby’s body and legs were delivered at 12:11 a.m. and the baby’s head was delivered vaginally.😱
Traction = pulling on the head. Sounds like they pulled the baby’s head off trying to get it unstuck, or it happened during the C-section. Either way, totally horrific. I wonder how common this sort of thing is?
When, Ross and Taylor demanded to see and hold their child, the baby was reportedly tightly wrapped in a blanket with his head “propped on top of his body” to conceal the fact that he was decapitated.
WTF.
What in the actual fuck. There is something called “internal decapitation” where you rip the skull off the spine but the skin and muscles stay intact. You’re still almost certainly dead, but I assumed that’s what this was. It would take a lot of force but not as much as it would to rip the whole fucking thing off.
I have seen some shit, and this story is making me sick.
I read the headline and went “What the fuck.”
While reading the article, I kept going “What the fuck.”
After finishing reading it, I’m still just sitting here going “What the fuck.”
Just…wtf.
thanks for the warning. I think’m gonna skip this one.
Same. It’s for the better.
As usual it’s not necessarily the crime but the coverup that will get you. Though in this case…WTF.
Every comment here is just “WTF” and that is entirely appropriate. Not really sure what else to say.
I wish I had not read this headline or article.
How fucking terrible of a situation. I can’t imagine what those parents are feeling right now.
Just in case anyone else, like me, was curious:
Shoulder dystocia is a condition that happens when one or both of your baby’s shoulders get stuck during vaginal delivery. There are no signs and no way to prevent the condition. Causes may include having a large baby, having a small pelvis or being in the wrong position
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This news article only deserves one word: “WTF!”
the baby was reportedly tightly wrapped in a blanket with his head “propped on top of his body” to conceal the fact that he was decapitated
Jesus fucking christ. There’s evil, there’s comically evil, there’s cartoonishly evil, and then there’s this. What in the everloving fuck were they thinking? You always use gorilla glue when trying to cover up a baby decapitation!
No seriously, they’re surgeons, they have needles and thread RIGHT THERE. If they had any consideration at all for the parents they would have reattached the head before giving them the body. Sure they’d still have to know the truth but it would be a less painful memory they’ll carry forever. I had been giving the hospital the benefit of the doubt that maybe by pushing cremation they thought they were sparing the mother some of the horror so she could just grieve. After all, she’s their patient. And then I got to that part. Disgusting.
