Doctor ‘pulls baby’s head off during childbirth while horrified father watches’
- Family say hospital tried to pressure them to sign documents to hide incident
- They also say that the girl was alive as she started to emerge from the mother
- The father said he even saw the girl blink and move before head was ‘ripped off’
A doctor is being investigated after reportedly pulling a baby’s head off during childbirth while the horrified father was watching on.
The family of the dead baby say that the girl was alive when she started to emerge and that after the traumatic incident, the hospital tried to pressure them into signing documents which would cover up what had happened.
The horrifying incident on May 1 took place at the Hospital das Clinicas da UFMG, in the Santa Efigenia neighbourhood of Belo Horizonte – the capital of Brazil’s Minas Gerais state.
Ranielly Coelho Santos, the baby’s mother, launched a complaint with the police two days after the failed delivery of her child.
Ms Santos, who already has a nine-year-old daughter, was taken into hospital on April 24, 28 weeks into her pregnancy, and went into labour seven days later.
A doctor is being investigated after reportedly pulling a baby’s head off during childbirth at the Hospital das Clinicas da UFMG (pictured) in Brazil as a horrified father watched on
During the birth, the obstetrician, who has not been named, reportedly called the girl’s father to observe the procedure closely.
The father says that he even saw his daughter blinking and moving her mouth, which he said was proof the girl was alive and well.
However, in a tragic turn of events, according to the family’s report to the police, the doctor put pressure on the mother’s belly and at the same time tried to remove the baby’s body quickly, and ‘ripped off the child’s head’.
The police report also says that the family, from Ribeirao das Neves, a municipality on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, were later approached by a social worker at the hospital who said that the facility would bear all the costs for the baby’s burial.
However, the offer was understood to only be valid if they agreed to sign documents stating that ‘the autopsy had already been performed at the hospital’, that ‘the child’s body had already been examined’ and that ‘the body would not be forwarded to the Legal Medical Institute (IML)’ for further analysis.
The parents refused to sign the paperwork and later filed a complaint with the police, with the baby’s remains then being examined at the IML, according to the family’s lawyer Jennifer Valente.
The hospital declined to comment to local media and the result of the autopsy has not been made public. The police investigation is ongoing.
The baby’s body is set to be released to the parents today so that it may be buried by the devastated family.
MailOnline has independently contacted the hospital for comment.
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