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Georgia Jury Awards $2.25 Million over Decapitated Baby’s Autopsy Videos

It comes during the parents’ separate malpractice suit over the infant’s delivery at Southern Regional Medical Center.

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A jury in Fulton County, Georgia, awarded $2.25 million to Jessica Ross and Treveon Taylor Sr. after they sued a doctor who was accused of sharing autopsy videos online of their newborn, who had been decapitated during delivery in July 2023, according to their legal counsel.
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Overview

  • A Fulton County jury awarded the parents $2 million in compensatory damages and $250,000 in punitive damages from Dr. Jackson Gates and his diagnostic laboratory.
  • The award stems from Gates’s posting of graphic videos of the July 2023 autopsy of the baby, who was decapitated during a complicated delivery, on his social media accounts without parental consent.
  • Ross and Taylor sent a cease-and-desist letter in August 2023 to stop the postings, but Gates reposted the videos and later defended his actions by citing a HIPAA exception for public safety.
  • In February 2024 the Clayton County Medical Examiner ruled the infant’s death a homicide caused by excessive force that fractured his cervical vertebrae during delivery.
  • The parents are pursuing a separate malpractice suit against Southern Regional Medical Center and obstetrician Dr. Tracey St. Julian over allegations that excessive traction caused the decapitation.