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The Sun
6 days ago
- The Sun
Haunting words of boy, 6, who killed newborn after being left to roam hospital maternity unit – as grieving dad speaks
A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy accused of killing a newborn baby after being left unsupervised at a maternity ward has told horrified witnesses she was "my doll". The shocking incident unfolded at the Jeanne-de-Flandre Children's Hospital in Lille, France, where baby Zayneb-Cassandra had been recovering after a premature birth. 5 5 5 Despite being born six weeks early, the infant had been doing well - until last Friday when she was found lying unresponsive on the floor beside her crib, with a serious brain injury. A six-year-old boy was discovered beside her, standing on a chair. He is believed to have plucked her from her crib and accidentally dropped her. Zayneb was resuscitated twice and placed on life support over the weekend, but she tragically died on Tuesday. Witnesses claimed the boy had been wandering the halls alone for days, with one woman saying he had already tried to touch another baby. The child was reportedly unsupervised as his mother was also recovering from giving birth. Delphine, a young woman who had recently given birth herself, was the first to discover the scene after hearing a 'loud bang'. 'He was running around everywhere and had already touched a baby in a stroller,' she told Le Parisien. The 20-year-old added that she found him beside Zayneb, referring to her as 'my doll'. The baby's grieving father, Mohamed-Hamza, 23, spoke of his devastation but said he doesn't hold the boy personally responsible. 'Every six-year-old is a little disruptive. I don't blame the mother; she had just given birth… But the child should have been supervised,' he told Le Parisien. He and his partner Sephora are now demanding answers from hospital authorities, accusing them of failing to protect their daughter. Zayneb's grandmother Fatma claimed the boy had entered the neonatal room before and had shown a disturbing interest in the baby. 'He said she looked like a doll, and my husband, who was there, took him out,' she told La Voix du Nord. 'It seems he tried to grab her by her nappy, and she fell on her head.' The family claim Zayneb had already shown signs of being mishandled in the hours before her fatal fall. Karima, a cousin, alleged that the day before the incident, the baby had been found 'without a diaper or electrodes, wet and suffering from hypothermia'. She also claimed the boy had been left at the hospital daily from 7am to 8pm by his father, running unchecked through the corridors. 'All the mothers were complaining,' Fatma said. 'A nurse even warned the child's mother that there was a problem. He was entering the other rooms.' A criminal investigation has now been launched by the juvenile unit of the Lille Judicial Police Service, working with local prosecutors. 5 5 The hospital has also opened an internal investigation and released a statement describing the tragedy as a 'particularly serious and upsetting exceptional event, unrelated to care'. But the family has dismissed the hospital's remarks. 'It won't bring my daughter back… But we're waiting for answers,' said Mohamed-Hamza. 'There was a breach, and I'm going to fight to identify those responsible. Justice will do its job.' Zayneb's mother, Sephora, is said to be inconsolable. The family claimed they had to push hospital staff to provide psychological support following the baby's death. 'My family is destroyed,' said Fatma. 'My daughter is devastated. Coming home without her baby is inconceivable.'
CBS News
11-06-2025
- Health
- CBS News
Family of woman killed inside UPMC Shadyside parking garage threatening lawsuit against health care giant
The family of a woman who died after she tried to exit the UPMC Shadyside hospital parking garage is threatening legal action if the company doesn't come forward with more information on the incident. It was back in April when Terry Philips was taking her husband to a routine appointment at the hospital. She got mixed up as to where she was supposed to park. What happened was an incident and accident that would eventually take her life, and now her family wants answers as to why it happened, and they're willing to take the health care giant to court to find out. When Phillips tried to get a parking ticket to get out of the UPMC Shadyside garage on April 17, she found herself having to open her door to get the ticket to exit. Her foot was on the brake of her car. It slipped and moved forward, crushing the 79-year-old, slowly killing her. "The husband was right here, he tragically saw the whole thing at one point, he wanted to try to start lifting the car off of his wife," said Matthew Scanlon, the family's attorney. Phillips' family wants to know why it took so long for anyone to help, despite the accident taking place outside the hospital's front door. "You have no medical care rendered for over 30 minutes, that's what's alarming and troubling," Scanlon said. The family's been trying to get answers from the hospital. "(UPMC) don't believe they are responsible for anything," Scanlon said. Scanlon told KDKA-TV that he's asked for documents and video evidence to shed light on what happened. According to Scanlon, he is ready to take UPMC to court soon. "Thirty to 45 days is a reasonable time frame to file and move forward," Scanlon said. KDKA-TV also reached out to UPMC for comment about the pending lawsuit, and is awaiting a response.
Sky News
26-05-2025
- Sky News
Man charged over Glasgow hospital crossbow incident
A man has been charged after armed police swooped on a hospital over reports of someone carrying a crossbow inside. Officers were called to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on Friday morning after a man reportedly entered the building carrying the ranged weapon. Police Scotland have now confirmed that a 29-year-old man has been arrested and charged following the incident. He is due to appear in court on Monday. Specialist firearms officers were among those who attended the incident at the hospital, but police confirmed the weapon had not been fired and there were no injuries. The atrium of the hospital was closed for a "short time" and traffic was temporarily diverted around the building, but a spokesperson for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said there had been no disruption to services.
BBC News
25-05-2025
- BBC News
Man charged over crossbow incident at Glasgow hospital
A 29-year-old man has been charged over an incident with a crossbow at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in were were called at about 06:30 on Friday after security staff prevented a man entering the building with the officers were sent to the scene and a man was arrested. The weapon was not discharged and there were no 29-year-old is due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the hospital's atrium had been closed for a short time and traffic around the hospital had been temporarily diverted.A spokesperson said: "There was no disruption to any of our services".
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Distraught father dragged away from his dying six-year-old daughter's intensive care bedside by police loses legal fight against the force
A distraught father who sued police after he was dragged away from his dying daughter's hospital bedside has lost his legal fight against the force. Shocking footage obtained by The Mail on Sunday showed Dr Rashid Abbasi, an NHS consultant, being wrenched from six-year-old Zainab shortly after he was told her life support was being withdrawn. The harrowing film from a police body camera captured him being forcibly removed from a children's intensive care unit in August 2019 by an officer holding him by the neck. Mr Abbasi's wife Aliya, a former doctor, was also grabbed from behind, pulled from the bedside and fell backwards on to the floor of the hospital ward screaming. The 64-year-old subsequently brought a civil claim for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and assault and battery against Northumbria Police. However, Mr Abbasi's case was rejected today by a judge, who described Mr Abbasi as a 'menace' on the ward. Judge Recorder James Murphy said there was more than sufficient grounds for the police to believe there was an imminent risk of a breach of peace. He concluded that Mr Abbasi's rights were 'not curtailed' and it therefore did not constitute a wrongful arrest or assault. Mr Murphy said according to The Mirror: 'I would be very surprised that a member of the public let alone a police officer would not have decided there was likely to be a breach of the peace.' 'If I was a bystander having watched this footage, a reasonable description would have been that Dr Abbasi was a coiled spring waiting to breach the peace,' he added. Mr Abbasi was said to have become 'very angry' when he was told he could not return to the hospital to visit his daughter. Staff reportedly found his behaviour 'intimidating' and security was called. However, speaking after the ruling, Mr Abbasi said the description of him as a menace was 'unwarranted' and 'hurtful'. He said: 'At court this week, the officers accepted that, from the time when they arrived until the time they laid hands on me, I was not acting aggressively. 'They accepted that I was not threatening anyone. They accepted that I was not intimidating anyone. 'I am disappointed therefore that the arrest was held to be lawful and the description of me by the judge as a menace was unwarranted and hurtful and is not borne out by the video footage which tells its own story. 'I will be seeking advice from my lawyers in respect of an appeal.' The incident involving Mr Abbasi took place in a hospital in the North of England that the Mail cannot name for legal reasons. It came after the parents were involved in a protracted dispute with doctors over the care of their critically ill daughter. The six-year-old was suffering from respiratory problems and a rare genetic illness called Niemann-Pick disease, which meant she was likely to die during childhood. Medics insisted Zainab should be allowed to die but Mr and Mrs Abbasi fought for further treatment that they were convinced would keep her alive. The couple clashed with Zainab's doctors for years over her treatment. They said that on two previous occasions when Zainab was critically ill they had successfully argued for her to be treated with steroids instead of having life support withdrawn, and were proved correct when her condition improved. After her admission to hospital in July 2019, Mr and Mrs Abbasi believed that, while their daughter was dangerously ill, she could survive with the right care. But the following month on August 19, doctors told the Abbasis that Zainab was dying. An audio recording revealed how one doctor told them that 'the next steps would involve taking her off the ventilator'. Rashid and Aliya pleaded for further tests, but one of the doctors refused, saying the process of moving Zainab on to palliative care needed to start 'straight away'. Rashid told them they would have to get a court order to do so. Urged again to carry out more tests, the doctor replied 'We are not going to be doing any more going round in circles', adding: 'You will never come to terms with this.' The medics then attempted to hand the couple a letter restricting Mr Abbasi's visiting hours amid claims that staff felt 'threatened and intimidated' by him. Dr Abbasi, a respiratory expert who works at a different hospital, stormed out of the meeting but hospital staff then called police, claiming he pushed a senior doctor who attempted to prevent him returning to his daughter's bedside. Half an hour later, four police officers and two security guards gathered at Zainab's bedside where the devastated Abbasis and one of their sons were quietly comforting her. The bodycam footage shows how officers asked on a number of occasions for Mr Abbasi to leave his daughter's bedside and talk to them outside the ward but he refused. Mrs Abbasi suggested the officers talk to her husband at the bedside. She pleaded with them to show 'compassion', saying: 'We were just informed they were going to take the tube out of our daughter.' But after just over five minutes, an officer gave Mr Abbasi a final warning before wrenching him away from his daughter. One officer held his neck as he was dragged in his chair away from the bedside, the footage shows. After being forced on to the floor, Mr Abbasi, who suffers from serious heart problems, complained of 'chest pain', only to be told: 'You've brought this on yourself.' The officers are seen claiming that Mr Abbasi kicked and bit them during the struggle. Mr Abbasi denies the claims. 'You are acting like an animal,' the female officer tells Rashid, firmly adding: 'Your behaviour in front of your child is disgusting' Mr Abbasi previously told the Mail on Sunday: 'The pictures speak for themselves. They behaved like barbarians. They were not prepared to listen. My daughter was given a death sentence half an hour before they arrived.' Mr Abbasi was taken to accident and emergency, where officers later de-arrested him. He said he was told he had suffered a heart attack and the next day he underwent an emergency angioplasty. Following the incident, the NHS trust applied to the High Court for permission to take Zainab off the ventilator, but on September 16, just three days before the hearing was due to start, Zainab died. Dr Abbasi's solicitor, Daniel Cooper, said today: 'Our client was sitting peacefully by his dying daughter's bedside, when police officers decided to drag him away. 'As the body worn footage shows, the force they used to do so was brutal, painful, and highly inappropriate given our client was a grieving father on a children's intensive care ward. 'In evidence, the officers accepted that, from the time when they arrived to the time they laid hands on our client, he was not acting aggressively. 'They accepted that he was not threatening anyone. They accepted that he was not intimidating anyone. 'We do not consider that it was reasonable for the arresting officer, PC Baxter, to form a belief that our client was going to imminently breach the peace. 'We are therefore disappointed the arrest was found to be lawful. We will be advising our client on the merits of an appeal in due course.'
