An Atlanta couple who lost their child due to decapitation at birth is speaking out after learning the baby’s death was ruled a homicide by the Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office. WXIA’s Molly Oak reports.
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#Atlanta #Baby #Birth
There are no words!
losing a child at ANY age is a road YOU do NOT want to travel…………….pray for the parents
I’m so sorry for your loss. This is easily the worse case of malpractice I’ve heard. I’m praying for justice for you and for your sweet angel. 😢💔🙏
Sad
I’m SICK 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮😫😭😭😭😭 man there is no way..HOWWWWWW ???!!!!! I feel so bad for them 🥺💔💔 WOW.RIP little Angel 👼🏽🙏🏽🕊️🤍
Asking the nurses to come forward? As if everyone already dont know who TF they are? This is heartbreaking
Oh these poor parents .may God’s love surround you
Everyone involved in that hospital room was aware and should be held accountable. That was cold blooded murder.!!!! Where is the Justice!?!?
Why.
Does anyone know what the surgical procedure is for late term abortion? This is another psy-op.
What do you mean by psy-op? How is this a psy-op?
@@orangechickengorl I thought no one would ask…..what difference does it make if a baby is decapitated or has a giant needle thrust into their cranium and their brains sucked out? What about 40 babies? What about a million every year? Somehow, it failed to make the headlines until now.
Oh, whoops , the head came off. ?
Hi, I just want to tell how sorry I am for your little baby death. Im sorry for the way you were treated. I pray to God for you to find some comfort in your heart. I know it’s hard, but keep praying to God for help, place this in Gods hands while you grieve your loss. God has all the answers. Again im soo sorry for your loss. Take care and God Bless Your Family.🩵🩷💛🧡💙💜💚❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💘💖🙊💓🩷🤍💕🦜But there’s one thing you can count on is that your baby is in Gods arms, and the Lord Jesus Christ❤
OMG, what level of evil or incompetence resulted in this happening…
Why hasn’t anybody that was in the room spoken up ?
Couldn’t expect much better from NBC. We need way more info.
There’s plenty of you know how to read.
The disregard with which they treat brown lives and bodies becomes more evident every day.
I highly doubt anyone will be held accountable for this. Hospitals get away with killing people all the time. Way way too much money around them to ever be held accountable.
How on earth did this happen?!?!
An O.B.G.Y.N. doctor might know.
The babys head was stuck in birth canal, all the force trying to pull him out decapitated him, they reushed her in to do a c-section, and when they tried to pull him out through the incision, it completed the decapitation.
Then they refused to let her hold him bc they had to prop his head on his body and wrap him tight to make it look intact. So they wouldnt let her hold him so she wouldnt see what happened….
They told her to cremate him immediately.
The funeral home is the one who contacted police when he saw the condition of the baby.
Every single doctor and nurse that delivered and covered up his death need to go to prison.
My heart breaks for his fanily. 😢
Jesus Christ that is the stuff of nightmares
Imagine being a nurse and doing this when your whole job is suppose to look after your patients! America is turning ugly to fast!
Mom and Dad feel so terrible for them heartbroken
Quality American healthcare…….aidiots
What did the baby do to deserve this
No amount of money will replace their son. Lord Jesus heal their pain. Lord have mercy on their souls
This is so sick and heartbreaking
The trauma this has caused this family and decent citizens of this country. Truly demonic actions happening here 😢
Why is everyone losing their heads over this 😬
😔my heart goes out to the parents & family of this innocent human being. 🕯️
I’m deeply deeply sorry 😞
Just waiting until eventually they play the race card. The way many stories on YouTube go when something happens to them
You playing the stupid card we see. You must have plenty of them.
There was a similar case in Britain. The perpetrator was an Obgyn, she was in a hurry to go home, was impatient, and used forceps to force the baby out before the mother was fully dilated. The doctor decapitated the new born. This doctor was still practicing as far as the video showed. Disgusting.
It’s sad that the baby was accidentally decapitated, but the worst part was that the hospital tried everything to cover up. From offering cremation right away to tightly wrapping the baby, propping his head on body and only letting parents see him thru glass
I wonder if people in court will think it was an accident. It’s difficult for me to believe it was because it sounds drastic. I think whoever did it is going to get in a lot of trouble.
I feel so bad for this young couple😢
I cannot imagine her pain
I hope someday these parents can find some kind of peace. RIP Sweet baby💙
😓🙏
Such a tragedy
Prayers to the family —
But what happened??
How do they not know who else was in there
I do not know this doctor, but I can say this I HATE HER! I cannot believe they ,the medical staff stood by and not have said a word no job is worth this .A child was injured and killed due to this doctor’s incompetence .I cannot imagine what these young and first time parents no less are going through.
The baby head rolled off wait a minute a actually newborn human life. Someones sick twisted mind is disturbing. C’mon this isn’t made up news
So if this is a homicide aka murder then will the doctor go to prison? I find it egregious and awful, unethical and immoral that the hospital staff tried to hide the little baby’s heinous injuries by holding the little body up to view him through a glass window. 😢
The mom real,And the father seems no feeling and so fake and he must thinking ,yes no need smash grab anymore , millions dollars coming
Or he can just be really hurting inside and trying to stay strong for his woman. Why would you think that why he would not be in the picture anyway? It’s people like you who have no time to just sit and think and smoke one instead you have nothing but stupidity to say out your mouth
No amount of money coyld ever fix this, but i hope they own that hospital by the time this is over. Listening to her beg for the nurses to come forward 😢 she shouldn’t be begging anyone!!! Absolutely horrific what they did to these new parents…. May their sweet baby rest in peace and may they get justice for him💙
This is so wrong!! This story is so similar to a lady in Scotland whose unborn baby was decapitated after a Dundee doctor chose the wrong method of delivery, a tribunal has ruled. Dr Vishnavy Vilvanathan Laxman was a consultant gynaecologist at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland in March 2014 when the tragedy occurred. Unfortunately the lady who lost her baby cannot get action taken against the gynaecologist as Scots Law states the baby had not taken its first breath before being decapitated and so wasn’t alive at that time. Incidentally the killer gynaecologist fled Scotland and returned to Pakistan and is now working there.
Dude a Hindu/ Indian doctor went to India not Pakistan.
How horrible! God have mercy
It’s sad, yes. Meanwhile, I’m also here wondering how these two heavyweights produced a pregnancy to start with .
Baby deaths in hospitals happen often. Did she uses a forceps to drag the baby out? I thought those things were banned?
I just came from the hospital and the gentle and competent treatment I received from my male doctor was much welcomed. Female doctors are rough and incompetent in my humble experience.
This is too tragic. I can’t. I can’t even follow the story no more
Here are the facts. I’ve talked to young Black women that are completely unaware of the dangers they are in by choosing mainstream hospitals to have their baby. They do not understand the historic numbers behind the decades of deaths. If these numbers were explained, clearly and concisely, young Black families would never go to a mainstream hospital in America for pregnancy and birthing services. It is a danger zone no different than inside any operating German concentration camp.
Now imagine this was a white baby. There would be riots in the street.
I hope the medical staff that was involved in the death and cover-up are all haunted.
I wish I never heard this story,, I can’t imagine the pain these people are feeling 🙏🙏🙏
OMG 😢this is devastating
My heart goes out to these parents. I hope they get all of the justice they deserve!!!
Heartbreaking
This is the stuff of actual nightmares
I feel awful for the parents i hope they get counselling & support and try to conceive again one day god bless.
I don’t know what it’s like to lose a baby because I never got a woman pregnant before. I’ve lost family members though. I can say it must not be easy, but I don’t know how difficult that must be.
My sincere condolences to this couple. It is heart breaking 💔
That is heartbreaking 😢
Such Heartbreak ! Prayers for this family!
This was evil, IT IS EVIL- PERIOD!!!
I am so sorry and very sad for this sweet young couple and their precious baby. My love and prayers go out to them and their families. The courts of heaven are in your favour!
If there was EVER a case for OBVIOUS homicidal murder THIS IS IT!!! JUSTICE BEST BE DOING IT’S JOB, AND HOW THIS TIME!!!
What????
Malpractice sued
Do They Know How The baby Was Decapitated 💔💔💔
Just Typing Those Two Words Together Is Horrifying, But To Know IT Actually Happened, And In A Hospital No less😟
It only took public outrage to get justice.
Wow! Shut them down. This is horrible😢
That’s horrible! How horrific! Condolences to the family. May this baby rest in the wings of the angels. And may the baby’s parents find comfort through each other, their faith system, and professional support. 🕊️ 💐
You can see how much distress, pain and shock they are in. Only thing to do is letting them go through their grieving, coming to terms of the reality of what really happened in their own way on their own timing together. They still have each other so they aren’t alone. I pray for their mental strength and the strength of the love in their support system!
White on blaack murders are few and far between.
Future crime prevention, literally. Zero sympathy.
Will they be prosecuted? That’s my question!
May Jesus comfort this beautiful couple, couldn’t imagine breathing after that.
No other words can express this horror.
I feel so bad for this couple. It breaks my heart that they experienced such a heinous act and loss of their child followed by such mistreatment and lack of empathy and compassion for them because of the perpetrators mistakes. I had a friend who lost her newborn in a hospital because of nurse who failed to give the correct amount of medication to her child. Such a sad situation.
As a Registered Nurse I am sorry to say that pre & post natal care for woman of color is frequently based on prejudice. Actually much of healthcare is prejudice against people of color. Unfortunately I’ve seen it many times and I have been called a bleeding heart liberal for standing up for patients of color. Disgraceful!
What a horrible story! My deepest condolences to the parents. I pray thoses involved paid for this crime. 😢
Sue. Move. Have another baby to help mend your broken hearts. RIP lil one.
There are certain hospitals in metro Atlanta to avoid 3. Emory Hillandale 2. Henry Piedmont 1. Southern Regional ..this hospital needs to be sold..not shutdown.
It sounds like all the employees present were threatened by someone.
It’s absolutely disgusting that it was ruled a homicide. If they had let the mother die instead of removing the dead fetus, wouldn’t that have been the real homicide? The fetus died, it was stuck in her pelvis, what choice did they have if they wanted to save the mother’s life. Sorry… but an adult woman’s life should always be considered to a priority over a dead fetus.
Sounds like they are totally misrepresenting what happened. Of course the hospital staff tried to make the corpse look less horrifying for the parents. The staff was probably just being really compassionate and didn’t want the parents to have nightmares remembering what it looked like. I can imagine what they’d be saying if they staff had NOT tried to make the fetus look as peaceful as possible.
I’m heartbroken for them!!!!😢😢😢
What else would it be ruled as?
The family and legal team should know about this case in the UK (YouTube link attached). This baby, Baby Steven, was very premature but many of the medical details are heartbreakingly similar. In this case, the delivering doctor withheld the facts of the decapitation, however, the mom heard the news from another doctor later that day. I pray for precious, precious baby Traveon, his parents and all their loved ones. 🙏💔🙏May the legal team procure the highest measures of justice for this family. May BabyTraveon watch over his mom and dad as a guardian angel. Heartbreaking beyond description. 🙏💔🙏
https://youtu.be/PyLdLf6Hd9k?si=Mx5YmyTSk4ck4WjN
Oh my dear Lord…..
OMG. This is horrible! My heart is full for them, so sorry they had to go through this; no one should. This is sad 😭😢🙏 🙏 🕊️
I had a pretty early miscarriage a year ago and it still hurts. I cannot even begin to imagine her pain having to go through a whole pregnancy and having a healthy baby stolen from you in such a horrific manner. My heart aches for her and her family.
All staff involved in covering up the incident should have their licences revoked on top of life long bans from practicing anything to do with health and social work.
My God. What kind of nightmare is this. Heartbreaking. How could this happen? Praying for the family
Is this the original case or a second one? Also for those trying to wrap their minds around it, it was most likely internal decapitation, not a full severance from the body. That’s why it was so easy to cover up
😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬yes…wth happend?
It seems doctors can’t be trusted now
horrible
They don’t give any details. The death probably occurred during a natural birth and the process involved pulling on the baby’s head too roughly. It was an ‘internal’ accident.
GOD is lifting up the skirts and revealing the true hearts of man in these last days. Do not be fooled.
Is this any different than the results of full term abortions that Democrats insist should be permitted?
The fact that the hospital staff propped the baby’s head up is literally Demonic. Evil people were involved in this atrocity. The doctors and nurses need to lose their licenses. I shudder to think of what other deaths that hospital covered up.
Sending Healing Love and Light to the parents.🙏💗
😢🎉❤
A few people need to lose their medical certificates and go to prison for a long time!
Poor couple. I just can’t imagine
God please give this couple strength and peace this is so heartbreaking
They need to Go to jail immediately