Our next story is a tough one - and it's the kind we wish we didn't have to report on. We warn you that if you're squeamish - you might want to change the channel - because the story pivots on photos of a dead newborn in the hospital. But, we have to include those pictures because that's what a family from Blackman Eddie says convinced them that their newborn baby Jayden died in the hospital. He was born on Saturday - but the medical staff at Western Regional told the mother who is 17 - that the child was stillborn. They showed her and the baby's father the baby, and then wrapped him up, and took him away to the morgue. But when the grandmother - who is the chairlady of Blackman Eddy Village - went back to the morgue - what they saw shocked them. We'll let her explain:..
Grandmother of the Deceased child
"When I saw him in the morgue I was wondering what went wrong because I know he never went that way. He went in with his two hands on his side and when we went at the morgue his hands was actually up here and one of his feet was up like when the baby is crying. I didn't know what to do. I didn't call anyone. All I did was I call back the attendant and I told him that the baby didn't came in this way."
Jules Vasquez
"Ma'am what do you think happened?"
Grandmother of the Deceased child
"I don't know because when the baby born the doctor told me that he didn't make it. He pronounces him dead as he born. They put him on the bed and that's where I took the picture and just the way how the baby was lying with his two hands on his side, the nurse wrap him up and from there they took him, so they say they were going to take him to the morgue."
Jules Vasquez
"At that point he wasn't showing any signs of life? He didn't look like a baby that was just born, you know babies cry when they are born or they want to suckle. The baby wasn't showing any signs?"
Grandmother of the Deceased child
"No, not really."
Jules Vasquez
"Now, you've said the baby's father he did observe something."
Grandmother of the Deceased child
"When the baby was lying on the bed the baby's father took the baby's hand because the baby had his hand this way (clinch), so he took the baby's hand and did it this way and the baby bring and close back his hands like 3 times he did that. But they told them that the baby was dead, so they didn't pay it any mind."
Jules Vasquez
"From there you all witness the baby was wrapped up with his hands at his side."
Grandmother of the Deceased child
"They wrapped him up, put a tape around him so that the sheet wouldn't come off I would think and from there they took him. Then the frightening part was on Tuesday when I went to pick him up about 1:30, when the attendant took him out I got frighten because his hand was actually up over his eyes."
Jules Vasquez
"How could that have happened?"
Grandmother of the Deceased child
"I don't know. So that was the part...... I couldn't bear because I know at the time when I see it I know that the baby wasn't dead when they say he died. He had to die in the morgue."
Jules Vasquez
"Your daughter is a teenager, how is she handling this? It's already difficult for even an adult, much less a someone who is a minor."
Grandmother of the Deceased child
"It's like she can't take it. She has nightmares, every night I have to get up and 'mommy, my baby is crying' - every night she has screaming and sometimes I can't even sleep."
Jules Vasquez
"Is there anything that will give you all peace of mind?"
Grandmother of the Deceased child
"I don't know what to say, honestly."
The family has lodged an official complaint with the Ministry of Health which is looking into the case.
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