In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, a Colorado woman accused the staff at the Denver County Jail of forcing her to give birth alone in a cell without medical supervision, ignoring her pleas for help through hours of labor. The entire ordeal was captured in a horrifying surveillance video, in which you can see the woman, Diana Sanchez, screaming in agony.
Sanchez says she told the deputy and nurses about her contractions at least eight times that morning, but help never came. Shortly before 10 a.m., Sanchez told a deputy that her water broke and that her abdominal pains were worsening; she was given an absorbent pad.
By 10:42 a.m., video of the cell showed Sanchez with her pants around her knees, her face distorted in a grimace. Soon, she is frantically taking off her pants and underwear. The door of her cell opens, but no one comes in to help. Sanchez’s mouth is wide open in a scream. Within seconds, a small baby tumbles out onto the bed and only then does a man wearing surgical gloves enter the cell. He appears to examine the infant, gently patting the baby’s back a few times. At least two people in uniforms can be seen.it took over 30 minutes for Sanchez and her newborn to be transported to the hospital—a situation worsened by the fact that the medical staff at the jail did not appear to know how to respond to a delivery.
“They put my son’s life at risk. Like at least him, he deserves a chance, you know,” said Sanchez. “When I got at the hospital said I could have bled to death.”This new lawsuit follows an internal investigation performed by the Denver Sheriff Department in 2018, which—predictably—absolved the deputies of any and all wrongdoing.
There is nothing appropriate about a woman in county custody undergoing nearly six hours of labor pains unaided, and there are no conceivable circumstances in which the deputies’ actions are defensible. And for medical personnel at the facility to respond with abject cluelessness at the sight of a newborn is alarming.As Sanchez’s attorney, Mari Newman, told KDVR, “The failure to provide care to a woman who is in labor and a baby who is born without any medical assistance in a dirty jail cell...
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