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Georgia couple Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr are accusing Dr. Tracey St. Julian of decapitating their baby upon delivery and then propping his head onto his body to conceal what they’d done, a lawsuit claims.
Jessica Ross, 20, and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr., are suing Dr. Tracey St. Julian and Southern Regional Medical Center, a hospital in Riverdale, Georgia, where Ross went on July 9 to have her son, Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr.
How Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr was decapitated during birth at Georgia hospital
According to the suit, the baby boy’s shoulders got stuck during a vaginal delivery which began 8.40pm that night.
Dr St. Julian is accused of delaying a C-section procedure and failing to seek help quickly. Instead, she applied ‘ridiculously excessive force’ on the baby’s head and neck to try to deliver it while Ross was still awake, claims attorney and physician Roderick Edmond.
The baby’s body and legs were delivered by C-section three-and-a-half hours later at 12.11am, and his head was delivered vaginally.
When Ross and Taylor demanded to see and hold their child, they claim the baby was tightly wrapped in a blanket with his head ‘propped on top of his body’ to make it appear like it was still attached. They ultimately found out about the decapitation from the funeral home, they claim.
The lawsuit claims that Dr. St. Julian did not tell Ross and her family about the decapitation when she spoke to them at approximately 5 a.m. on July 10.
The grieving couple have accused hospital of trying to cover up what happened by discouraging them from getting an autopsy and encouraging them to have their son cremated.
‘They were so excited about the birth of their first child,’ said attorney Cory Lynch. ‘Unfortunately, their dreams and hopes turned into a nightmare that was covered up by Southern Regional Medical Center.’
The suit is asking for Ross and Taylor to be compensated for the suffering and death of their baby boy and the ‘tremendous mental and physical anguish ands trauma’ experienced by Ross.
Edmond claims that by the time Ross was taken in for a C-section, a fetal monitor had stopped registering a heartbeat.
The couple had even asked for a C-section earlier, when the baby still could have survived, but were denied, Edmond said.
