Have a miscarriage, get arrested. Welcome to America, 2024...

[RoryN]

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Brittany Watts was still hooked to an IV, sick for almost a week from a potentially fatal miscarriage, when a detective from the Warren Police Department in Ohio stepped into her hospital room. He assured her that she wasn’t in any trouble.

For more than an hour, Detective Nick Carney interviewed Watts, 33, about the details of that morning and the whereabouts of the nearly 22-week-old fetus that was declared nonviable two days earlier. As Watts described miscarrying in her bathroom, a nurse at Mercy Health — St. Joseph Warren Hospital rubbed her shoulders and told her everything would be okay, Watts told The Washington Post in a series of text messages.

Two weeks later, Carney arrested Watts on charges of felony abuse of a corpse for how she handled the remains from her pregnancy. If indicted and found guilty, she faces up to a year in prison along with a fine of up to $2,500, her lawyer said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...-s-charged-with-abuse-of-a-corpse/ar-AA1lxOeB

 

[RoryN]

"Watts later learned through her lawyer that the nurse who had reassured her had reported her to the police."

 

[ll74]

The nurse probably was worried that she would be held liable because the laws are shit.

 

[RoryN]

The nurse probably was worried that she would be held liable because the laws are shit.

'xactly.

 

[bobb_sledd]

Watts, a medical receptionist at a different hospital, had woken in pain on the morning of Sept. 22. At her home in Warren, Ohio, about an hour east of Cleveland, she tried walking around indoors, but it didn’t lessen the pressure she felt in her abdomen.

Watts was in her bathroom when she delivered a roughly 15-ounce fetus over the toilet. At the time, she said, she “didn’t know that at 5:48 a.m. [her] life would change forever.” The delivery left a mess of blood, stool, tissue and other bodily fluid, clogging the toilet. Watts scooped out what she believed was stopping the toilet and placed it outdoors, near the garage, cleaned the bathroom and showered, records show.

To maintain appearances to her mother, whom she had not told about the pregnancy, Watts drove to a hair appointment, said Traci Timko, Watts’s attorney. The hairdresser noticed Watts’s pale face and immediately called her mother to take her to the hospital. It was Watts’s fourth pregnancy-related trip to the hospital that week.

When a hospital nurse asked Watts where the fetus was, Watts told her, and later the police, that the fetus was outdoors, near the garage; Watts added that she didn’t look inside the toilet to make sure. A hospital note written and signed by the nurse said, “Advised by risk management to contact Warren City Police to investigate the possibility of the infant being in a bucket at the patient’s residence.” The next record shows that the nurse called the police.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...-s-charged-with-abuse-of-a-corpse/ar-AA1lxOeB

 

[Pad_Foot]

Early on in the county’s history, miscarriages were treated as the woman’s fault!

Nice to know History repeats itself! May all these assholes’ wives and daughters have that lovely experience OR life threatening pregnancies OR the JOY of birthing a long dead child that ends their chance of more children!!

Where are the funds to cover these unwanted pregnancies and the expenses to find the children good homes ? When THAT happens I’ll believe they care about the children vs a mass of cells!

 

[jaF0]

Note, she was not charged for the miscarriage. She was charged for trying to dispose of the remains instead of seeking proper assistance in the matter.


But it seems then 'nurse' could/should be on the hook for a HIPAA violation.