The parents of an infant girl who died weeks after being born prematurely in 2022 have filed a lawsuit against an Orlando, Florida, hospital, claiming their daughter’s neck was broken by an employee at the facility who covered it up and never called police.
The grief-stricken relatives of Jahxy Peets said they “deserve answers” and demanded justice during a press conference outside of Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies on Monday, where the newborn’s neck was snapped in the NICU, resulting in the girl’s paralysis and eventual death.
“I never got a chance to hear my daughter cry. She never got a chance to meet her siblings or her family. We never celebrated a single milestone. We only held her four times in her entire life,” the devastated mom said.
According to the lawsuit filed Oct. 17 in Orange County, Gianna Lopera gave birth to Jahxy at 24 weeks on June 13, 2022. Following a successful birth, Jahxy was intubated and admitted …