During a news conference in Atlanta on August 9, 2023, attorney Roderick Edmond, along with Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr., Jessica Ross, and attorney Cory Lynch, announced he has filed judicial charges against alleged abuse of Southern Regional Medical Center and another doctor who had decapitated her baby during his son’s birth.
During a news conference in Atlanta on August 9, 2023, attorney Roderick Edmond, along with Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr., Jessica Ross, and attorney Cory Lynch, announced he has filed judicial charges against alleged abuse of Southern Regional Medical Center and another doctor who had decapitated her baby during his son’s birth.
During a news conference in Atlanta on August 9, 2023, attorney Roderick Edmond, along with Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr., Jessica Ross, and attorney Cory Lynch, announced he has filed judicial charges against alleged abuse of Southern Regional Medical Center and another doctor who had decapitated her baby during his son’s birth.
During a news conference in Atlanta on August 9, 2023, attorney Roderick Edmond, along with Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr., Jessica Ross, and attorney Cory Lynch, announced he has filed judicial charges against alleged abuse of Southern Regional Medical Center and another doctor who had decapitated her baby during his son’s birth.
A lawsuit has been filed against a Georgia doctor who is accused of using excessive force and decapitating ‘baby No. 2’ after the baby became stuck during childbirth.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a Georgia woman was revealed on Wednesday, which involved legal action against sex workers who decapitated her baby while giving birth.
The lawsuit against Dr. Tracey St. Julian and Southern Regional Medical Center, a hospital in Riverdale, Georgia, where Ross went to have her son on July 9, was announced by the mothers of the baby, Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr. at c/o Jones International news conference in Atlanta.
Attorney Cory Lynch stated that the couple’s hopes for a child were dashed when Southern Regional Medical Center covered up their plans.
No response was received from St. Julian’s office despite attempts to contact them, and an email message was not immediately returned. The Associated Press was also unable to confirm if she had legal representation.
Southern Regional released statements stating that it was not within the rights to discuss treatment for specific patients due to privacy laws, but denies the accusations. It expressed solidarity with Ross and Taylor and their care team.
The hospital expressed their deepest sorrow over the loss and stated that they are committed to providing compassionate, high-quality care to all patients. They also recognized that St. Julian was not a staff member and had taken appropriate measures in response to the tragic event.
The hospital spokesperson, Kimberly Golden-Benner, declined to provide further information. St. Julian is affiliated with Premier Women’s Obgyn, a health care organization that has two locations and provides services such as circumcisions, infertility treatment, and low- and high-risk obstetric care.
The lawsuit alleges that the baby got stuck during delivery, and St. Julian delayed a surgical procedure and did not seek immediate medical assistance. Instead, she used excessive force to deliver the infant by applying it to its head and neck, as stated by attorney Roderick Edmond.
The suit alleges that St. Julian took Ross, aged 20, for a cesarean section about three hours after the birth, when he had already stopped measuring his heart rate.
The baby’s legs and body were removed through a cesarean section, but the head was delivered via vagina.
The couple had asked for a C-section before, but were denied the procedure due to the possibility of the baby’s survival, as per Edmond.
The case, as he put it, highlighted the increased rates of infant and maternal mortality among Black women.
Ross and Taylor, aged 21, chose not to address the media during their Wednesday news conference. Their lawyers accused Southern Regional staff of trying to hide the decapitation by discouraging them from conducting an autopsy and convincing them to cremate their son while concealing his head by wrapping it around their body.
The lawsuit contends that gross negligence, fraud, and intentional infliction of emotional distress are the primary grievances. It also seeks unspecified punitive damages.