The manner of death of a Georgia couple’s baby boy, who was decapitated during delivery at a hospital last July, has been ruled a homicide, according to the Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The death of Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr., who died at Southern Regional Medical Center in Clayton County, Georgia, on July 10, 2023, while his mother was delivering him, was “caused by the actions of another person,” the medical examiner’s office said in a statement Tuesday.
Southern Regional Medical Center declined to comment on the medical examiner’s ruling “due to current litigation,” a spokesperson told Atlanta Black Star in an email.
The child’s mother, Jessica Ross, who had endured diabetes-related pregnancy complications, was rushed to the hospital after her water broke on the day before his death.
During Ross’s several hours-long natural birth, she encountered further complications as her infant had stopped moving out of her birth canal, Atlanta Black Star previously reported.
She was under the care of OB-GYN Dr. Tracey St. Julian during the troubled delivery.
Ross and the baby’s father, Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr., sued St. Julian and six other Prime Healthcare Services/Southern Regional Medical Center doctors in metro Atlanta after their child’s disturbing death.
The civil suit claims that St. Julian demonstrated gross negligence during the delivery process.
Southern Regional Medical Center said in a statement that St. Julian is not “and has never been” an employee of the hospital, WSB-TV reported.
St. Julian attempted various methods at delivering the child, including applying eventually fatal forceful traction on the child’s head, Atlanta Black Star previously reported.
A STAT cesarean section was completed on the morning of July 10, and the child’s head was delivered vaginally while his body and legs were removed from his mother surgically, according to a lawsuit filed by the…
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