A Georgia couple has filed a lawsuit claiming their infant son was decapitated during delivery, and the doctor later attempted a cover-up. WXIA’s Molly Oak reports.
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#Georgia #Baby #Crime
How on earth do you decapitate a baby during birth. Jesus freaking Christ. What a nightmare. That poor woman. I would have torn that dr apart.
More or less if you pull on both ends.
They should have done the c -section early.
They progressed with natural birth way beyond the point of no return and failed to correct errors made in the process.
And she didn’t even know for three days!! Three days of pure joy shattered.
Extreme, excessive force
Did she really put the head back on the baby
I was going to ask this same question!!
whats the big deal, it was just an abortion.
Nancy Pelosi Stated, “We are all Socialists now” How is that American style socialismcommunism working for everyone?
Evil people thriving in this country!!! We are so tired!!!!
So wait, a traveling doctor did this? They said he didn’t belong to the hospital. Jesus H I hope he can be held accountable. I’ve never heard of a doctor using so much force during a cesarean that it DECAPITATED A BABY. Medical malpractice and negligence is at play here; investigate him and remove his medical license.
Dang !!!!! Condolences To The Family and Family Member’s 🌹 ✝️ 🌹
Oh dear God. I cant even imagine the horror.
This is so horrendous. Why didn’t she get a stat c-section @ 6hrs for failure to process in labor. The cover up us CRIMINAL….one of the nurses could have called authorities with their identity protected.
The whole thing is so horrifying. I can’t even imagine what the poor mother & father are going through.
That ob should loose their medical & be prosecuted for murder.
Nothing can remedy the tragic loss of that baby, but I hope the family wins a landmark suit, and the dr is prosecuted for murder & trying to cover up decapitation of a baby.😢😢
I wonder how often this happens, the parents just ok the cremation and never find out the truth? 😢
trumpist hospital!
Crazy story 😢
This story is a lie something is not right sound like another Jessie smullet case
Tf are you talking about,
What doesn’t sound right is that a newborn is dead. There’s nothing to compare this tragedy to.
Yes, some things are missing but since it is horrific and most people are controlled by their emotions the lies will fly over their heads and they will be mad when the ending isn’t in favor of the mother.
sue that hospital into the ground.
She has no tears
SHE’S IN SHOCK!
@grlnexdoorableno she just has no sad feelings towards the baby dying. This is about her and now she wants the money she heard about. I can read faces and she has no sadness that’s not shock btw. I shouldn’t be here saying that but it’s true and it makes me irritated
@Jaywhat is wrong with you. You’re being so evil. Stop trolling pls!!
@msprissy1433 what’s wrong with me is I let other people’s psychopathy irritate me.
@Jay oh ok
HOW did this occur? Omg!
OMG
Certainly hope he/she is NOT allowed to practice ever again.
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They didn’t want an autopsy because they were afraid of what it would uncover. While the doctor may not be an employee of the hospital, the delivery took place there. They could also be held accountable. I can’t even imagine the pain the family is going through.
It’s horrible. The fact they are covering it up just imagine what else this hospital is doing.
This is so sick, i never thought i would hear anything like this
You hear about it all the time. The only difference is this time it was during birth and other times it’s called an abortion. It’s pure evil.
Disgusting. So sorry to the Mom and Family.
Doctors need to be held responsible an that dr should be in jail
Why would a doctor be pulling on a baby’s head in the first place? That can’t be normal.
The Dr. Had somewhere they would rather be, so yanked on the baby head.
During the video it was said that the baby came out feet first.
@cdes1776 the attorney said after the cesarean the Dr. Lifted the body out feet first and the head was not attached.
@grlnexdoorable Yeah, I got that…
@c desthe lawyer is lying already. They usually do not deliver breached babies vaginally so something is off with the narrative coming from the family. The story is horrible and triggering but if you listen to it all, it doesn’t make sense. The baby was yanked out according to the report but it was also breach and delivered via c section. Then the mother is claiming that she went to all her prenatal appointments but didn’t have time in the hospital prior to birth when her baby was breached? Didnt have a c section planned for her high risk birth? Like some key pieces are missing.
😢 So terrible, what a horrific event to deal with.
Much sympathy and compassion towards this family tragedy.
Dr may not have been an employee but yhe nurses etc who tried to help cover this up were. Hospital is just as culpable. As a mom my mind & heart cannot wrap around this situation. I can’t imagine how the parents are truly feeling. Oh dear God…
Sue them to high Heavem
NBC celebrates dismemberment of children on a daily basis…
Much worse than this situation as the methods of abortion can be beyond cruel.
BUT…now All of the sudden NBC cares?
I live about a hour from this hospital and today I’m about 20 miles away from it. My mom worked at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta (about half an hour from this hospital) in the women’s unit for 40 years until she left in December 2021 and then they shut the women’s unit down about 6 months afterwards and started sending all the nurses everywhere and she has always told me to avoid this one. This place has a really bad reputation for just straight up being terrible. Just Google it and look at the reviews, it’s just one star review after one star review of people being rushed out the door and even child births not being recorded, missing IVs for epidural so that means going through childbirth with absolutely no pain meds, botched handling of fetus complications leading to miscarriages, people in the ER not even being given ice packs when requested after waiting for hours on end, and it just goes on and on. Everything I just mentioned there is just what has happened in the last TWO MONTHS in the reviews. There’s the occasional five-star or four-star review, but most of those are for radiology or other specialty offices. People are just posting pictures of the staff walking around doing nothing and talking, which would be fine if there weren’t people literally stacked up in the waiting rooms. But of course, we have a nursing shortage and they’ll hire every nurse that they can. While some of the staff are of course being lazy, as somebody who has watched my mom outright refuse to become a nurse practitioner at least four separate times since i was born I know for a fact just how terrible it is to have to manage a hospital in general. So many of the issues that are described are almost certainly overworked underpaid nurses working off 12-hour shifts that are straight up detrimental to their health in every way, and The doctors are running around like chickens with their heads cut off just trying to keep up with every patient they see. Mistakes happen, but they shouldn’t be happening like this. This is exclusively a management issue, which is why you should not go here *ever* due to how many of these hospitals here in Georgia are owned and operated by enough private individuals that they get sayso on how things work.
Liberals call that an A B O R T I O N but won’t admit that this is essentially the same.
🥀 Bad doctor 🥀 very bad 🥀Bad hospital 🥀 very bad 🥀
Can you say malpractice?
I dunno bout yall but my baby is detachable 😂
Your comment is tasteless and inappropriate.
Not funny
@msprissy1433 por que
OMG my condolences in regards to the family and the little one who did not survive because I do believe they covered everything up because guess why? They’re covering a lot of things up these days and it’s about time things come to light and be disclosed especially this one I hope they win this lawsuit exclamation exclamation and you know what else I hope they all pay doctor wasn’t an employee bullcrap. 1:42
Doctors are given privileges to practice but are considered independent contractors. Unless you’re talking about an emergency room doctor. I believe it even then because you get a separate bill from hospital and doctor.
@Smfarrieyes you’re absolutely correct! Very well stated
@Smfarrie regardless of the fact that what you say may be true and probably is, I feel very strongly that this system that we call HealthCARE is really messed up and it needs fixed it needs looked into and things need to be overhauled or reformed or something this is ridiculous. I had a hand debridement in February last year that my insurance sent me an itemized statement, and they charged me for one night the surgery which only took 20 minutes $33,000. That’s ridiculous
Have your baby elsewhere
This is TERRIFING!. We need better Doctors and STRONGER EDUCATION AND TRAINING.
This is in RIVER DALE, GEORGIA, south Atlanta in Clayton County. Just south of Hartsfield Airport in Hayesville, Georgia.
This is no doctor, it is a monster. Poorly trained. Made C’s and D’s in Medical School. What Medical School did she graduate from… the Army?
So In the most literal sense of the word a doctor performed an abortion. It was during the birth which means it wasn’t a human right?
I was thinking that too
God bless this family
Doctors are so often contractors.
You can’t trust anybody anymore.
Wait, they do the SAME thing in abortions!!!!
Hypocrites!!!
Why would an autopsy be needed to determine cause of death if there is literally a body and head that are separate?!?
That poor baby had its head ripped off and the doctor and hospital need to be sued back to the Stone Age.
The autopsy will help support the plaintiff (mom) in proving that the baby didn’t have any medical condition which contributed to the event – such as hydrocephaly.
🙏 Prayers to the family and the little 😇 baby. So heartbreakingly sad.
Oh shiiiiiiii! What! Yo this is crazy AF
The whole hospital staff she lose their licenses and places in prison! They are required to report the incident! The doctor I’m sure has done this before why else was she so comfortable with telling the parents to have the baby cremated
She would’ve faired better with a home birth. This is why Black woken need to stop having babies in the colonizers hospitals. 😡
This couple is in my prayers! God be with you both! This woman doctor should never practice medicine ever again! And this family could never be given enough money to replace their child! May God Be with you Always! 🙏❤️🙏
The fact that the hospital allowed a person who’s not an employee to deliver a patient’s baby is more grounds to do a thorough investigation of that hospital. Truly devastating, my deepest condolences to the family.
@Shaunna L perhaps, but I would assume hospitals or even doctors who hire others would make sure they were properly trained/licensed to handle child labor at the hospital. Maybe not, Im really not sure, but would love a doctor’s insight on how it all works.
@angie flores I’m sure her OBGYN was licensed. Sometimes during delivery the baby makes it halfway down the birth canal and gets stuck – at that point an emergency C-section should have been ordered and the surgeons who are employed by the hospital could take over. For some reason her OBGYN didn’t recognize this and continued to attempt a regular delivery.
@Shaunna L that was one of the things that really bothered me; that her colleagues asked her to perform the c-section initially and she didn’t. It really boggles my mind how it all happened at all. Hopefully the family can find peace after everything is said and done.
Maybe i have it mixed up; i was watching another case like this and similar thing happened. But other doctors pleaded with the main doc to perform c-section. I cant recall if its this case or the other one i watched.
@Shaunna LBut either way they are using their staff,who helped cover this up and their facilty. Again this couple was allowed to see there baby but through the glass,he was intentionally wrapped up in a blanket ,head positioned in a way to hide what was done to him .They never told this couple what happened,in courage them when they want a autopsy to not do it,you will have to pay for it. They are young,this was their first baby and was grieving min shock in more . They thought they had got away with this,never knowing that funeral home would see that baby and know something was not right ,know what they did to him and call the parents telling them. I applaud Willie Walkins Funeral home a staple in Georgia for not shoving it under the rug with these parents never knowing what happened until the one ready to embalm this baby saw this.
@p edward I would think they – the hospital staff – was doing what they could to prevent further trauma to the parents. They certainly aren’t going to let them see the baby in 2 pieces. That doesn’t mean they were trying to cover up what happened. However… recommending no autopsy is suspect- but the prosecutor will need proof of that. That’s going to be tough to prove without evidence.
😢 my sincerest condolences to this grieving mother, father, family, and community. I have no words other than my heart breaks with yours
https://youtu.be/B0tWkhkd7h4 😮
Blacks will destroy the hospitals like they have the city’s and schools.
Libs and Dems telling us to trust Doctors so Big Pharma can make a profit… shameful.. lies.. misinfo.. racist
Please everyone in Atlanta, do not go to this hospital until they finish this investigation. We do not know the truth because we wasn’t there, do no put you life in this hospital hands. Go to another hospital if can!!!
My heart is overwhelming 💔. Please pray for this young couple. May God guard your hearts. And minds during this time of bereavement. May God strengthen their shoulders during this time.
Patients Everywhere Beware! This can happen to any woman: your mother, your daughter, your sister, your aunt, your daughter-in-law, grand-daughters..in any state! Hospitals love to cover up negligence and malpractice! Most times, these situations get unreported and/or management distorts facts!
》Horrified by this ___!
They do the same thing to thousands of babies everyday, you just don’t want to call them that, the only difference here is it’s not what the mother wanted, had it been what she wanted she would have gotten exactly that. Maybe the paperwork said abortion and not birth?
This really shouldn’t surprise anyone!
They are owned and operated by Prime Healthcare, the fifth largest for-profit health system in the U.S. They operate 45 hospitals in 14 states people!
Horrific, what is wrong with that doctor.
“Southern Regional Medical Center:
Care begins with a safe place.” Ha! Yeah ok! Be careful when being admitted to any of Prime Healthcare Services hospitals, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was looking into their billing practices for violations of the False Claims Act and the California False Claims Act
Wow. How deplorable.
Most horrific news story I’ve read. My heart goes out ti this couple. How many times has this happened and have gotten away with it??
This is a nightmare! Poor baby! Praying for the baby
After I gave birth to my little girl I had gone to the nursery to go get her and they said I had to come back later because they accidently put her under an air conditioning vent after washing her… they said they had to keep her under a heating lamp for a while… my heart sank I wanted to scream… but I was so afraid they would do further damage to her if I did… she was in their care… I just went back to my room and cried…
Horrific incident, how can something like this happen, we are not in the dark ages!
Lol hospital cover ups this is nothing new they’ve been doing this for decades this entire country is just so unethical
Trying to get that money! Nope no mention of the family pushing for charges to get filed, all they care about is that paycheck 😂
This sounds like a nightmare. I’m so sorry the poor baby and the family went through that. The hospital and the medical staff involved must be experiencing a lot of pain too. I think the credentials of the medical professionals involved should be thoroughly checked because I believe there is an increase in the number of people who have fake degrees and licenses. It could have just been a rare horrific event, but because it is so rare, I think it’s worth investigating to see if someone made some mistakes and why that is.
By saying the doctor is not their employee they are implying that it is not the responsibility of the hospital. I can’t leave my hospital of employment and practice in another facility expect during authorised staff trainings….i work in West Africa
Danng poor baby! 😢😢😢
As horrible as this sounds it’s probably better to wait for all the facts, because the news isnt to concerned with fact finding these days.
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UPDATE: The fetus DID NOT have a head…. It was not fully developed !!!!
So if the hospital denies this, then why are they offering their sympathies to the family? If the incident didn’t happen, then no sympathy is needed. Weird.
Their child died so they are offering sympathies for that and are claiming it happened before the birth. I hope the truth comes out and people are held responsible.
So you let some creepy and probably racist POS have privileges at your hospital? What’s his track record? If the hospital knew he had a bad record, sue. If he had a history and they didn’t bother to find out, sue.
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And THIS is why they make you sign Waivers in America saying you wont sue. I don’t care if the Doctor was from China, your Hospital gave permission and gave them Privileges to Practice in your Facility/Hospital, that means YOUR HOSPITAL takes responsibility for her and her Actions. They need to go after the Doctors Medical License. Disgusting!
Sympathies? Yeah, that’ll fix the system. How was a doctor, not hired by the medical facility, allowed to practise (poorly) medicine there, and put people’s lives in danger? There is not enough compensation in the world for what the young couple has been forced to grapple with. May God somehow heal this situation. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Watch how the hospital win because they have more money and they KNOW they wrong !!!! I would off that entire staff !
What kind of doctor is he??? How hard do you have to pull to decapitate a baby???
Hope he goes to jail….My heart goes out to the parents…
RIP little one💙🙏💙
The doctor is female.
Wait, so this wasn’t an internal decapitation, but literally the baby’s head was off?! Dear God, how did that doctor not know?! Rest In Peace little one. My heart goes out to the parents.
That hospital is sorely mistaken if they think they aren’t liable because they let a subcontracting doctor use their facility! They are responsible for whom they give privileges to because it was on their premises that this took place. They need to fess up and then do the right thing! No amount of money can compensate a human life, but the least they could do is to take steps to ensure this never happens again and cover all this woman’s expenses! The pain this full term child must have gone through before dying is unimaginable. Either this doctor is totally incompetent to practice medicine, under the influence, or it was intentional. It takes quite alot of force to decapitate a human baby. If he had followed proper procedure it would never have happened. The doctor should have his license revoked!
Yes! 💯💯💯
It doesn’t matter if the doctor is not an employee of the hospital.
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Lord, I can’t imagine and the fact that I found other stories of this happening… after seeing this video
CAN’T BLAME THE DOCTOR,,,,HE;S JUST DOING HIS PART TO HELP FIGHT CRIME
These sadistic inbred disgusting degenerate Demons have the same exact cowardly evil in them as there parents grandparents and ancestors and i pray all of the inbred doctors and anyone working at that hospitals that had anything to do with the Cover up and the Murder of that innocent beautiful baby needs to rot in prison in the most Painful ways for the rest of there worthless lives,everything needs to be taken from them and given to the family of the baby they Murdered its not just enough to sue all of them including the hospital for everything they have,but they need to be thrown on prison for the rest of there lives,wonder how many other black babies or black woman have died at the hands of these inbred serial killer degenerates
To all mothers that are pregnant do not I repeat do not go to that hospital to birth your baby 💔💔💔💔💔 this is most heart breaking news
Poor mama 🙁
This is evil. What doctor would handle a birth like that? Pure evil
The district attorney should be meeting with the parents!
If the procedure was done in that hospital, they are liable. What do they mean the dr isn’t an employee there?
Being fired is not enough! She needs to spend a lifetime in jail and an eternity in 🔥 And ALL media need to show that demonic entity picture everywhere so her life can take a dive for the worse and never get better.
This is exactly why many hospitals will allow recording during labor but want expectant families to turn the cameras off during delivery. They don’t want their wrongdoing caught on tape!
This is how loyal black female voters get treated. And Joe Biden isn’t going to lift a finger
How tf does that even happen that’s horrible
The “mother” couldn’t have looked happier.
These are demons I personally would seek horrific
Gruesome revenge
And A Black Female Doctor Did This!
TO BE EXACT: Here is your chance to make money off of a child you never ACTUALLY wanted to begin with. As is presentes in your histological file. Someone tell the Hospital to check into the former unidentified minors files around the late-mid 2000s around 2008-2012 or so. They #Will find the parents of the DECAPITATED BABY. The dexapitaion might be a retaliation for testimony involving a previous hanging. The hung indiciduals family #WAS medical staff of this hospital that that time when these parents went off and made the UNWELCOMED documentry about the hanging from the DEATH PACT the parent of this baby made to lure an innocent person into hanging themselves. The hung person wanted a family and plans until the parent of this baby convinced the hanged individual that children were pointless and claimed you never wanted them.