A "baby without a face" is born and the case is surrounded by a judicial scandal

Portugal continues to shudder every day with new revelations about the case of the baby born without a face in Setúbal, 50 kilometers South of Lisbon… and now the identity of the mother is revealed, Marlene Simao, It happens 24 hours a day with the little one.

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Rodrigo does not have eyesor the nose or part of the skull and she and the father are absolutely shocked After checking your physical condition. Incidentally, Portuguese citizens are excited when they see on television that the woman is not taking off.

To top it off, the clinical picture of minor not yet complete, given the impossibility of extending the analysis. For now, the creature is going days of service Although the initial diagnosis indicated that it would not last long. The past came to the world October 7so he reaches two weeks of life.

How could it be otherwise? Rodrigo is in a bedroom apart and there his mother stays too. His sister Joana She insists that she move to her home and rest for at least a few hours, but she does not want to leave there at any time.

Nobody understands how it is possible for the obstetrician Artur Carvalho does not detect defects in none of four ultrasounds done and even the president of the official college of doctors, Miguel Guimaraes, appeared with circumstances to give explanations on the case

This Tuesday, October 22 meets the Disciplinary Board to evaluate the five files that opened the professional questioned, although they do not pronounce themselves on the current case because, they say, they did not reach the documentation relevant.

If it falls on Artur Carvalho the weight of the College of Physicians action, can condemn him to one suspension maximum of 10 years in his professional activity.

Negligence

Until now, the organ which groups the doctors showed a caution which infuriates thousands of citizens of neighboring countrybecause they consider that there is no more proof of the negligence that the physiognomy itself with which he was born Rodrigo.

The scandal is growing

The commotion and outrage are advancing at high speed because the parents denounced the irregularities the process of monitoring the final stage of pregnancy in the service of Obstetrics from the San Bernardo Hospital of the coastal town, 50 kilometers south of Lisbon.

sources: ABC, Spain.