Couple slams hospital for death of their baby who suffered a fatal brain injury during his birth: 'Their actions killed our son'
This March, Alison and Justin Clark would have been celebrating the second birthday of their son Sebastian, instead, the family will be gathering around an apricot tree where they buried his ashes. Sebastian died when he was four days old due to a fatal brain injury after, in coroner Dr. Sean Cummings' words, "lamentable" failings at the Kingston Hospital in South West London. If the maternity staff had done their jobs properly, the infant would have still been alive.
The now 32-year-old Alison had developed an infection and was left in labor for 32 hours even though Justin begged for an emergency Caesarean-section. Sebastian was finally delivered on March 8, 2017, with forceps only after the staff noticed that his heart rate started dropping.