Videos that should not have been on social networks. An American couple received $ 2.25 million (1.95 million euros) compensation after the videos of their decapitated baby were transmitted by a legalist on social networks without their agreement, reports the Associated Press agency on Saturday, June 21.
The coroner did not respond to the legal action filed against him, which led to the Court of Fulton County, in Georgia, to govern “by default” in favor of the plaintiffs.
In a Facebook post, since it was eliminated, the professional denounces a “total spontaneous abortion” and says he intends to appeal.
The baby has trouble leaving, the doctor pulls his neck
On July 10, 2023, Jessica Ross, an American who lives in the state of Georgia, is preparing to give birth to her first child in a hospital located south of Atlanta. But the newborn, a small child, has difficulty leaving and is caught in the pelvic bone.
The obstetrician responsible for giving birth makes excessive use of his strength in the baby’s neck and head, accusing parents in a complaint. The child, named Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr, is beheaded and dies the day of birth.
According to parents, the couple is not initially informed by doctors of the exact circumstances of their death. Only when Jessica Ross leaves maternity that funeral directors inform her that the child is beheaded.
Parents have a complaint against motherhood and the doctor
The parents, Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Mr., have a first complaint against motherhood and obstetrician, believing that the latter delayed surgery and did not ask for help quickly when childbirth seemed dangerous to the baby’s health.
At the moment, an autopsy has been carried out in the child’s body. She establishes that the child died of a neck fracture. The Forensic doctor points out in his conclusions that human action is in question and concludes, at the beginning of 2024, that it is a homicide.
This first case has not yet been governed by Justice and is currently underway.
Videos published on Instagram, a second complaint filed
The parents also filed a second complaint. This time it refers to the coroner responsible for leading Trevon Isaiah Taylor Jr., in fact, Dr. Jackson Gates has published several videos of the medical intervention on his Instagram account, without requesting the permission of the parents, according to the complaint filed by the couple in September 2023.
Dr. Jackson Gates withdrew this content at the beginning, after receiving a letter from the parents’ lawyer, but then published the videos, according to the couple.
The doctor’s lawyer ensures that his client has the habit of publishing regularly contained in the autopsies he is carrying out as part of his work for his colleagues.
“This young couple trusted him”
The lawyer of the forensic doctor ensures that the practitioner is “deeply unfortunate” by the “involuntary damage” caused to parents. “If I had known a single second that they would see this and that they would know that it was his son, he would never have done it,” he said.
The couple’s lawyers said these publications had “stirred the knife in an already deep wound” for parents after the death of their son.
“This young couple trusted him by entrusting him with the remains of his beautiful baby. Gates, in return, gave them this confidence by publishing horrible images of their son in view of the whole world,” said the defense of disconsolate parents.
Source: BFM TV
