A Massachusetts couple died within two weeks of giving birth, one of Boston's most famous hospitals. I sued one. The baby loses his body and refuses the opportunity for parents to perform proper funerals and burials.
According to a proceeding filed Thursday, Everly's baby's body was inadvertently abandoned by Brigham Hospital employees, 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. "Greg, the couple's lawyer, said. 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 the morgue even before Everly went missing.
In a statement, Dr. Sunil Epen, the hospital's chief medical officer, said he could not comment on the details of the case, but said he was sympathetic to his family.
"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 intensive care.
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 wrapped body was transferred to the hospital Morgue to give Ross and McCarthy a few days to arrange a funeral. However, according to the proceedings, hospital officials were "inappropriate or undesignated for giving birth to babies in the morgue," because another worker was blocking a rack designed for the child. " 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. Through video surveillance and employee interviews, Boston police have investigated and determined that Everly may have been abandoned in dirty linen from her morgue on August 7.
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.
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