A lawsuit accuses a Georgia doctor of decapitating a baby during delivery

ATLANTA — A physician used an excessive amount of pressure and decapitated a Georgia lady’s child throughout supply, based on a lawsuit attorneys stated was filed Wednesday.

The child’s mom and father, Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr., attended a information convention in Atlanta the place their attorneys introduced the lawsuit in opposition to Dr. Tracey St. Julian and Southern Regional Medical Heart, a hospital in Riverdale, Georgia, the place Ross went on July 9 to have her son. Riverdale is about 13 miles (20 kilometers) south of Atlanta.

“They have been so excited concerning the start of their first little one,” stated legal professional Cory Lynch. “Sadly, their goals and hopes changed into a nightmare that was coated up by Southern Regional Medical Heart.”

Calls to St. Julian’s workplace went unanswered, and an e-mail message was not instantly returned. The Related Press was not capable of decide whether or not she had an legal professional.

Southern Regional stated in statements it couldn’t talk about therapy for explicit sufferers resulting from privateness legal guidelines, however it denies the allegations in opposition to it. Its “heartfelt ideas and prayers” have been with Ross and Taylor and their care suppliers, it stated.

“Our dedication is to supply compassionate, high quality care to each single affected person, and this loss is heartbreaking,” the hospital stated. It later added that St. Julian was not an worker of the hospital, and it had “taken the suitable steps in response to this unlucky state of affairs.”

A spokeswoman, Kimberly Golden-Benner, stated the hospital couldn’t elaborate. St. Julian is a part of a health care group referred to as Premier Girls’s Obgyn that has two places and presents circumcisions, infertility therapy and different providers along with low- and high-risk obstetric care, based on its web site. St. Julian is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist who has been practising within the Atlanta space since January 2005, the web site says.

In keeping with the swimsuit, the infant bought caught throughout supply, however St. Julian delayed a surgical process and failed to hunt assist shortly. As a substitute, she utilized “ridiculously extreme pressure” on the infant’s head and neck to attempt to ship it, legal professional Roderick Edmond, who can also be a doctor, stated.

Roughly three hours handed earlier than St. Julian took Ross, 20, for a cesarean part, based on the swimsuit. By then, a fetal monitor had stopped registering a heartbeat.

The cesarean part eliminated the infant’s legs and physique, however the head was delivered vaginally, based on Edmond.

The couple requested for a C-section earlier, when the infant nonetheless may have survived, however have been denied, Edmond stated.

He stated the case highlighted the upper charges of toddler and maternal mortality for Black girls.

Ross and Taylor, 21, didn’t communicate at Wednesday’s information convention. Their attorneys additionally accused Southern Regional workers of making an attempt to cowl up the decapitation by discouraging the couple from getting an post-mortem, encouraging them to have their son cremated and wrapping and propping his physique to make it seem the pinnacle was nonetheless connected.

The swimsuit alleges gross negligence, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional misery. It seeks unspecified punitive damages.