Baby decapitated during childbirth: the “infant's head was torn off” by the doctor, the autopsy confirms homicide

La mère a dû subir une césarienne en urgence pour retirer le reste du corps du bébé. illustration Midi Libre – ALEXIS BETHUNE

The affair is dramatic. The parents of the deceased little boy have decided to sue the American hospital and want to know the exact circumstances surrounding the baby's death.

A horrible story. When 20-year-old Jessica Ross's water broke and she was transported to Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale, Georgia, USA on July 9, she thought she could last in his arms for a few hours. after her little boy who was going to be born.

The child's shoulders stuck

But the birth did not go as planned. Quite the contrary. As the baby's head presented, his shoulders remained stuck for several hours, due to shoulder dystocia.

After a while, the gynecologist wanted to take the baby out. It was at this point that he allegedly "negligently applied excessive traction".

The baby's head was torn off, freeing itself from the still stuck body. To free the rest of the stillborn baby's little body, an emergency cesarean section was performed.

The little boy named Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr was pronounced dead.

The baby swaddled to hide the truth from the parents ?

When parents Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor asked to see their child, little Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr, and even hold him in their arms despite the tragedy, the healthcare team presented them from afar, swaddled very tightly to hide the fact that the head was separated from the body. The head had been positioned so that the decapitation could not be seen, as reported by CNN.

At that time, the parents were not aware that the head had been torn off and that their child's death was due to this decapitation.

Incineration recommended

The medical team recommends rapid cremation. The parents also claimed that staff tried to dissuade them from performing an autopsy. And it was only when the mother left the hospital that they discovered the decapitation. the funeral home which informed the parents.

The conclusions of the forensic doctor

Faced with this news, the parents decided to take legal action against the hospital and the medical team. On Tuesday, February 6, the Clayton County Medical Examiner's Office ruled it a homicide.

In a press release, he specified that the infant had died of a "fracture dislocation with complete transection, of the upper cervical spine and the spinal cord", due to "shoulder dystocia, arrest labor and fetal entrapment in the birth canal. 

The forensic doctor added that gestational diabetes declared during pregnancy and premature rupture of membranes should not be neglected in the tragedy either. < /p>

"Never seen before"

Brian Byars, the director of the Clayton County Medical Examiner's Office, explained on CNN: "I have never witnessed any ;rsquo;something like this before. No one in our office has seen anything like this. Everyone we consulted with has never seen a situation like this before."