{"id":333179,"date":"2025-06-23T06:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=333179"},"modified":"2025-06-22T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:54:35","slug":"jury-2-million-parents-baby-decapitated-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jury-2-million-parents-baby-decapitated-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury awards $2.25 million to parents of baby decapitated at birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A jury in Fulton County, Georgia, has awarded<\/a> the parents of a baby boy $2.25 million in damages after he was decapitated during his delivery, and his autopsy was posted on social media without their consent.<\/p>\n

Key Takeaways:<\/h2>\n
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  • Parents of a baby boy who was decapitated during birth have received over $2M in damages.<\/li>\n
  • The hospital allegedly attempted to disguise the baby boy’s decapitation; it was the funeral home that alerted the baby’s parents.<\/li>\n
  • The pathologist hired by the family to perform an autopsy posted video of the autopsy to his Instagram account without the parents’ permission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The Details:<\/h2>\n

    Treveon Taylor and Jessica Ross will receive $2 million in compensatory damages and an additional $250,000 in punitive damages against pathologist Dr. Jackson Gates \u2014 who posted the autopsy video of their son \u2014 and Medical Diagnostic Choices in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

    Taylor and Ross sued Gates in September 2023 for alleged invasion of privacy, fraud, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n

    “While we are pleased that a jury punished Dr. Jackson Gates for his reprehensible behavior, nothing can ease the pain that the parents, Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor, Sr., have experienced in losing their baby boy in such a horrific way,” attorneys for the family said in a statement.<\/p>\n

    The baby boy, Isaiah, died during delivery on July 10, 2023. On July 12, Ross contracted Gates to conduct an autopsy. Gates shared images of that autopsy to social media without permission. According to the lawsuit, the photos showed “in graphic and grisly detail a postmortem examination of the decapitates, severed head of Baby Isaiah.”<\/p>\n

    Attorneys for the family said, “After the decapitation of their baby, Gates poured salt into the couple’s already deep wounds when he betrayed them.”<\/p>\n

    Gates’ Instagram account has been removed but he continues to have an active YouTube account.<\/p>\n