Georgia doctor posts gruesome autopsy photos of baby on Instagram, grieving parents awarded millions

A grieving household volition person $2.25 cardinal aft a Georgia justice ruled a metro Atlanta-based pathologist violated their privacy by posting autopsy photos of their decapitated babe connected societal media.

A Fulton County assemblage connected Wednesday recovered Dr. Jackson Gates and his company, Gates Rapid Diagnostic Laboratory of Atlanta, owed the baby's parents $2 cardinal successful compensatory damages and $250,000 successful punitive damages—the ineligible maximum, according to a report from affiliate FOX 5 Atlanta.

The baby's young mother, Jessica Ross, experienced a complication known arsenic enarthrosis dystocia during her delivery connected July 9, starring to a rushed Cesarean section.

Attorneys representing the baby’s parents, Jessica Ross and Treveon Taylor Sr., spoke astir the lawsuit during a quality conference. (FOX 5 Atlanta)

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The couple, Jessica Ross and Treveon Taylor Sr., aboriginal filed a suit against Southern Regional Medical Center and the OBGYN, claiming the doc pulled connected the baby's caput and cervix truthful hard that the bones successful his skull, look and cervix were broken. 

While doctors delivered the baby's assemblage and legs during the procedure, his caput remained successful the vaginal canal.

Attorneys claimed the nurses and aesculapian unit astatine the infirmary lied to the mates astir what occurred during labor, discouraged them from getting an autopsy, encouraged them to cremate the baby's body, and did not study the decease to the aesculapian examiner.

A Georgia assemblage awarded $2.25 cardinal to the parents of a babe who was decapitated during childbirth. (FOX 5 Atlanta)

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As portion of the parents' hunt for answers, they hired Gates to execute a backstage autopsy. Weeks aft the tragedy, Gates allegedly shared photos and videos of the child's full-face and interior organs on Instagram without the couple's consent.

"My babe was connected Instagram," Ross said successful an interrogation with FOX 5. "Dr. Gates posted pictures of my baby."

Treveon Taylor Sr. and Jessica Ross posed for a photograph anterior to delivering their son. (Photo courtesy of The Edmond Firm, LLP and The Law Office of Cory J. Lynch, LLC)

The suit against Gates, which was filed successful September 2023, alleged helium reposted the photos aft receiving a cease-and-desist missive from the family, requiring him to region the videos from his account.

Gates claimed helium did not see the child's individuality and the posts were for acquisition purposes, according to the report.

The baby’s parents, Jessica Ross and Treveon Taylor Sr., are besides suing the hospital. (FOX 5 Atlanta)

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"While we are pleased that a assemblage punished Dr. Jackson Gates for his reprehensible behavior, thing tin easiness the symptom that the parents… person experienced successful losing their babe lad successful specified a horrific way," the couple's attorneys wrote successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Our extremity was to ensure that Gates was held accountable for his unconscionable deficiency of empathy and penetration of our clients' privacy."

The Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the child's decease a homicide earlier this year, according to the report. The lawsuit against the infirmary and doc who delivered the babe has not yet been tried successful court.

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Southern Regional Medical Center did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

Gates' attorneys could not instantly beryllium reached by Fox News Digital for comment.