According to the lawsuit, Jessica Ross went into labor on July 9, and her doctor, “attempted to deliver the baby vaginally using different methods including applying traction to the baby’s head.”

During the attempted delivery, “the baby did not properly descend due to shoulder dystocia,” a condition when a baby’s shoulders become stuck in the vaginal canal, the lawsuit says.

The physician “failed to practice according to medical standards,” the complaint reads. The complaint says the doctor “grossly” and “negligently applied excessive traction” on the head and neck of the baby and “failed to do a Cesarean section in a timely and proper manner, resulting in Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr.’s decapitation and death.”

According to a statement from the family’s spokesperson, when Ross and Taylor “demanded to see and hold their baby, hospital staff told them that they were not allowed to touch or hold their child.”

“Hospital staff allowed the young couple to only view their dead child,” the statement from the family’s spokesperson reads.

“During this viewing, their baby was wrapped tightly in a blanket with his head propped on top of his body in a manner such that those viewing him could not identify that he had been decapitated,” according to the statement.

On Thursday, the Clayton County Medical Examiner told CNN in a statement his office is calling on state officials to investigate the incident. Byars said his office has contacted the Georgia Composite Medical Board “and requested that they also investigate three doctor’s roles in this incident.”

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He added the office is in the process of notifying the Georgia Secretary of State Office Board of Nursing, as well, “and will request that they also investigate the nursing staff’s role in this incident.”

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