![]() ![]() ![]() The complaint says the doctor “grossly” and “negligently applied excessive traction” on the head and neck of the baby and “failed to do a Cesarean section in a timely and proper manner, resulting in Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr.’s decapitation and death.” The physician “failed to practice according to medical standards,” the complaint reads. The office still is working to complete the baby’s autopsy, the office’s director, Brian Byars, told CNN.Īccording to the lawsuit, Ross went into labor on July 9, and her doctor, “attempted to deliver the baby vaginally using different methods including applying traction to the baby’s head.”ĭuring the attempted delivery, “the baby did not properly descend due to shoulder dystocia,” a condition when a baby’s shoulders become stuck in the vaginal canal, the lawsuit says. ![]() The county medical examiner’s office has not released the cause of the baby’s death. The baby, who was named after his father, was delivered at full term, according to the family attorney. The medical center is in Riverdale, some 13 miles south of downtown Atlanta. The complaint filed in Georgia’s Clayton County alleges the Southern Regional Medical Center attempted to conceal the manner of death of the baby from the family including the mother, 20-year-old Jessica Ross, and her boyfriend, Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr. A mother who alleges her baby was decapitated during delivery at a Georgia hospital last month filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the hospital and others involved in the delivery, according to legal filings. ![]()
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