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Boston (AP) — A Massachusetts couple who died within two weeks of giving birth is Boston's most prestigious person. I sued one of them. A hospital for the loss of an infant's body and refusal of parents the opportunity to perform proper funerals and burials.
According to a proceeding filed Thursday, Everly's baby's body was accidentally abandoned by an employee at Brigham Hospital, along with dirty linen from the hospital's morgue.
According to the proceedings, Everly's parents, Alana Ross and Daniel McCarthy, said, "As a result of serious and serious mental distress, they suffer from severe mental and distress and physical symptoms. I was harmed. " At the Suffolk Superior Court.
"It was traumatic to lose her daughter, but when she was literally abandoned, it was like losing her daughter again," the couple's lawyer said. , Greg Henning said on Friday. "They lost her twice."
A hospital, parent company Mass General Brigham, and more than 12 employees have been appointed as defendants. The proceedings allege breach of contract, negligence, and intentional mental distress. And there remains illegal interference with humans. According to court documents, the couple living in Sharon are seeking more than $ 1.3 million in damages. The
proceedings allege that Brigham and Women were aware of the "management and condition issues" in her morgue even before Everly went missing.
The hospital's chief medical officer, Dr. Sunil Epen, said in a statement that he could not comment on the details of the case, but sympathized with his family. rice field.
"We continue to have heartfelt sympathy and heartfelt apologies for the loss of Ross and McCarthy's family and the tragic circumstances surrounding them," he said. "We shared the details with the patient's family easily and transparently, as if there were concerns raised in connection with our standard of care or practice."
McCarthy ( 37) and Ross (36) have been devoted for many years, engaged in 2019, and were "excited" when they learned that Ross was pregnant on February 20, 2020. .. According to Henning, multiple attempts to give birth to a child.
Everly was delivered prematurely on July 25, 2020, weighing 2 pounds and 5 ounces (1 kg). She "suffering from medical complications" and was transferred to the intensive care unit.
Her parents embraced Everly for the first time on August 1st, read to her, stay alert, and before dying in her mother's arms on August 6, 2020. I baptized her.
Her corpse was moved to the morgue of the hospital, giving Ross and McCarthy a few days to arrange a funeral. However, according to the proceedings, hospital officials said that another worker was blocking a rack designed for the child, "inappropriate or undesignated place to deliver the baby to the morgue." I put the baby on the table.
Apparently, no one knew that the baby was missing until August 10, when the funeral hall representative arrived at the hospital to pick up the body. Everly was not found.
Her parents contacted the Boston Police Department on August 11, and the Boston Police Department conducted video surveillance and employee interviews when Everly was released from the morgue on August 7. We investigated and decided that it might have been thrown away with dirty linen. ..
Police tracked where the body arrived, and twice, police investigators and trash company workers screened mountain medical debris, often covered with blood and human waste. I found Everly, but it didn't help.
McCarthy and Ross were loyal Catholics and wanted a proper funeral and burial for her daughter, so they always had a place to visit her. Henning said.
Now they only have a box with some pictures, baptismal water, handprints, footprints, and a knit hat.