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Dec 2, 2008 7:20 pm US/Central
Hospital Misplaces Stillborn For Over A Year: Suit
CHICAGO (STNG) ―
A woman is suing Tuesday claiming it took her more than a year to retrieve her stillborn baby from a South Side hospital after staff members lost the baby's body.
Shenora Brooks that following the birth of the stillborn on Dec. 1, 2006, the staff at Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center took the baby from her without giving her adequate time to spend with the child, according to the suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court.
Brooks claims she wanted to kiss and touch the baby for a period necessary for her emotional and physical wellbeing, but the hospital staff ignored her feelings and took away the baby.
The hospital told Brooks she could pick the baby up from the hospital morgue at a later date, but when Brooks went to retrieve the baby it was gone.
The hospital, located at 326 W. 64th St., somehow misplaced, lost or mislaid the baby, and the stillborn couldn't be located, and wasn't found until Aug. 20, 2007, the suit claims.
The suit seeks in excess of $50,000 in damages.
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