{"id":209664,"date":"2019-08-31T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=209664"},"modified":"2019-08-30T22:07:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T03:07:41","slug":"woman-birth-denver-jail-alone-screams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-birth-denver-jail-alone-screams\/","title":{"rendered":"HORRIBLE: Woman gives birth in Denver jail cell alone as she screams for help"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman is suing a Denver prison after she was left alone in her jail cell as she gave birth. Diana Sanchez was given no medical treatment even though she had told guards she was having contractions and her water had broken, she claims in a lawsuit. The entire horrifying ordeal was caught on camera, and the video was released to media by Sanchez’s lawyer.<\/p>\n

According to NBC News<\/a>, Sanchez was in prison for fraud — writing a check off of her sister’s account — and was eight months pregnant. After two weeks, Sanchez began having contractions. According to her lawsuit, she told deputies and Denver Health nurses at least eight times, yet she was ignored. But instead of giving her any medical treatment or taking her to the hospital, they “chose to take a ‘wait and see’ approach to their care, as though it were not patently obvious to anyone \u2014 with or without medical training \u2014 that Ms. Sanchez was in labor and required immediate medical attention,” her lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

“The pain is indescribable and what hurts me more though is that fact that nobody cared,” Sanchez told KDVR<\/a>.<\/p>\n