A nurse has been fired after the father of a newborn baby caught her on video slamming the 2-day-old infant into a bassinet in the NICU at Good Samaritan University Hospital in Long Island, New York.
Fidel Sinclair and Consuelo Saravia had their worst nightmares come true as parents when Sinclair witnessed the unthinkable with their son Nikko.
The infant was kept in NICU for observation because doctors gave him some antibiotics. Sinclair heard his son crying, so he went to go check on his child and decided to take a video of his newborn through the glass window. Then, he witnessed the nurse pick his son up roughly, turn his son over, and slam him into the bassinet face first.
“I don’t know, but it just broke me. I didn’t know what to do,” said Sinclair. “I really wanted to break through that glass. I am glad I went back to the room and showed her (Consuelo) before I reacted.”
Saravia told NBC New York 4 News she immediately confronted the nurse.
“I told her ‘I don’t want you to touch my child. You just slammed him,’” Saravia recalled the conversation. “She said ‘Oh no, if you think I mishandled him or anything, I’m sorry.’”
She also showed the video to other nurses and administrators.
“It was heartbreaking,” said Saravia. “I couldn’t stop crying, I couldn’t even sleep.”
Sinclair also mentioned that he was fortunate enough to catch the act on camera and that the curtain was lifted high enough to do so because there are no security cameras in that room.
“There were a lot of babies in there, and it made me feel like if that happened to Nikko who else did that happen to,” Sinclair said. “I find it messed up that in a room like that they have all the curtains closed. If it wasn’t for God who sent me to check on him we would have never seen any of that happen. … And It would have kept happening overnight not only to him…
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