Lawsuit: NJ hospital misplaced stillborn baby, performing unauthorized autopsy

A New Jersey infirmary is being sued for performing an unauthorized autopsy on a stillborn baby lost successful a morgue for respective months.

The suit against Hackensack University Medical Center was filed by a 34-year-old Jewish pistillate from Connecticut who claims she and her hubby signed disconnected connected an exam of her baby’s remains, but objected to an autopsy based mostly connected religious grounds, according to NJ.Com.

The plaintiff alleges the bid of mishaps began successful September 2022 erstwhile doctors induced transportation owed to a congenital disorder successful a fetus  with nary accidental of surviving birth. The couple’s suit reportedly states that knowing the origin of decease besides made the unwelcomed autopsy unnecessary.

It was the child’s mother’s knowing her son’s remains would beryllium humanely disposed of wrong a month. Her suit claims the tiny assemblage alternatively remained undetected successful the hospital’s morgue until February 2023.

It wasn’t until June 2023 that Hackensack University Medical Center allegedly hired a fetal pathologist to execute a July autopsy without parental consent. That’s erstwhile the baby’s parents reportedly learned of the hospital’s alleged errors.

The aesculapian radical being sued reportedly expressed sympathy for “the family’s tremendous loss” successful a connection provided to NJ.Com implicit the weekend. That remark said it shared successful the family’s grief and offered its “thoughts and prayers” to those impacted. It’s not wide if the infirmary disputes the allegations against its aesculapian team.

The plaintiff alleges nonrecreational negligence and seeks remedy for the mother’s severe affectional trauma.