‘This is not right’: Funeral home blows whistle after receiving decapitated baby

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“I just felt a sense of urgency to say this is not right.'

“I just felt a sense of urgency to say this is not right, this is not right,” Sylvania Watkins, general manager of the Willie A. Watkins Funeral Home, said.that was decapitated during birth. The hospital claims the baby was dead before the delivery.“We should have retrieved this body from the coroner’s office. When that did not happen, that’s when I said we need to reach out,” Watkins said.

Watkins said he also called the Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office which sent an investigator to the funeral home to begin a probe into what happened during and following the birth. Byars said the Clayton County Police Department is also investigating the circumstances around the boy’s death.

 

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