The grieving parents of a newborn decapitated during delivery say they are still being traumatized by the handling of the child’s death.
Initially, the Georgia couple was upset with the hospital staff and the doctor who facilitated the botched birthing procedure. Now, they have concerns about the doctor they hired independently to perform an autopsy on their baby.
According to a lawsuit filed on Sept. 1 in Fulton County, the physician in question posted videos from the private autopsy of the infant on social media. Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr., from Clayton County, are now suing Dr. Jackson L. Gates, alleging that he caused them “mental and emotional pain and suffering” by sharing unauthorized images of their child’s deceased and decapitated body on Instagram.
The complaint says Ross and Taylor both experienced “feelings of shock, anger, humiliation, and outrage” after seeing the Instagram post that was published by the doctor on July 14 and on July 21.
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It also said the two “had salt poured into their unfathomable emotional wounds” when Gates posted the images.
“Dr. Jackson Gates attempted to exploit our clients’ horrific loss to boost his own social media profile, without permission of the family,” the lawyers representing the couple said in the statement, according to Newsweek.
The videos posted of the child, named Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr., were from the postmortem examination of the baby. The lawsuit says Gates never received permission from the parents to video-record the examination.
The clips are said to have shown the examination “in graphic and grisly detail.” The complaint says that Gates removed the July 14 video, but a week later, posted two different videos on Instagram from the…
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