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A newborn
baby was thrown out into the trash after a failed abortion
Pregnant 18 year old, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside
Miami Florida and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to
terminate her 23-week pregnancy. As she sat in a reclining chair, medicated
to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready for the procedure. Doctor
Renelique didn't arrive on time. According to Williams and the Florida
Department of Health, she went into labor and delivered a live baby girl.
What Williams and the Health Department say happened next has shocked people
on both sides of the abortion debate: One of the clinic's owners, who has no
medical license, cut the infant's umbilical cord. Williams says the woman
placed the baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out in the trash.
Now Sycloria Williams is suing Dr Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique and the
abortion clinic's owners in a case that has shocked both sides of the
abortion debate.
Police recovered the decomposing remains in a cardboard box a week later
after getting anonymous tips.
An autopsy revealed air in the baby girl's lungs - proving that she was
born alive and breathing.
'I don't care what your politics are, what your morals are, this should not
be happening in our community,' said Tom Pennekamp, a Miami attorney
representing Ms Williams in her lawsuit against Dr Renelique and the clinic
owners. The state Board of Medicine is to hear Dr Renelique's
The state attorney's homicide division is investigating, though no charges
have been filed.
Terry Chavez, a spokeswoman with the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's
Office, said this week that prosecutors were nearing a decision.
Dr Renelique's attorney, Joseph Harrison, called the allegations at best
'misguided and incomplete'. He didn't provide details.
The case has riled the anti-abortion community, which contends the clinic's
actions constitute murder.
'The baby was just treated as a piece of garbage,' said Tom Brejcha,
president of The Thomas More Society, a law firm that is also representing
Ms Williams. 'People all over the country are just aghast.'
Even those who support abortion rights are concerned about the allegations.
'It really disturbed me,' said Joanne Sterner, president of the Broward
County chapter of the National Organization for Women, after reviewing the
administrative complaint against Dr Renelique.
'I know that there are clinics out there like this. And I hope that we can
keep (women) from going to these types of clinics.'
According to state records, Dr Renelique received his medical training at
the State University of Haiti. In 1991, he completed a four-year residency
in obstetrics and gynaecology at Interfaith Medical Center in New York.
New York records show that Dr Renelique has made at least five medical
malpractice payments in the past decade, the circumstances of which were not
detailed in the filings.
Several attempts to reach Dr Renelique were unsuccessful. Some of his office
numbers were disconnected, no home number could be found and he did not
return messages left with his attorney.
Ms Williams struggled with the decision to have an abortion, Pennekamp said.
She declined an interview request made through him. She concluded she didn't
have the resources or maturity to raise a child, he said, and went to the
Miramar Women's Center on July 17, 2006.
Sonograms indicated she was 23 weeks pregnant, according to the Department
of Health. She met Dr Renelique at a second clinic two days later. Dr
Renelique gave Ms Williams laminaria, a drug that dilates the cervix, and
prescribed three other medications, according to the administrative
complaint filed by the Health Department.
She was told to go to yet another clinic, A Gyn Diagnostic Center in
Hialeah, where the procedure would be performed the next day, on July 20,
2006. Ms Williams arrived in the morning and was given more medication.
The Department of Health account continues as follows: Just before noon she
began to feel ill. The clinic contacted Dr Renelique. Two hours later, he
still hadn't shown up. Williams went into labour and delivered the baby.
'She came face to face with a human being,' Pennekamp said. 'And that
changed everything.'
The complaint says one of the clinic owners, Belkis Gonzalez came in and cut
the umbilical cord with scissors, then placed the baby in a plastic bag, and
the bag in a trash can.
Ms Williams' lawsuit offers a cruder account: She says Ms Gonzalez knocked
the baby off the recliner chair where she had given birth, onto the floor. T
The baby's umbilical cord was not clamped, allowing her to bleed out.
Ms Gonzalez scooped the baby, placenta and afterbirth into a red plastic
bio-hazard bag and threw it out.
No working telephone number could be found for Ms Gonzalez, and an attorney
who has represented the clinic in the past did not return a message.
At 23 weeks, an otherwise healthy foetus would have a slim but legitimate
chance of survival. Quadruplets born at 23 weeks last year at The Nebraska
Medical Center survived.
The Department of Health believes Dr Renelique committed malpractice by
failing to ensure that licensed personnel would be present when Ms Williams
was there, among other missteps. The department wants the Board of Medicine,
a separate agency, to permanently revoke Dr Renelique's license, among other
penalties. His license is currently restricted, permitting him to only
perform abortions when another licensed physician is present and can review
his medical records. Should prosecutors file murder charges, they'd have to
prove the baby was born alive, said Robert Batey, a professor of criminal
law at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport.
The defence might contend that the child would have died anyway, but most
courts would not allow that argument, he said. 'Hastening the death of an
individual who is terminally ill is still considered causing the death of
that individual,' Mr Batey said. 'And I think a court would rule similarly
in this type of case.'
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