UPDATE! Baby Decapitated DURING Birth! Jury Awards Parents $2 Million

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Update on the decapitation of Baby Isaiah during his birth. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what happened and how the family is still having to fight for justice. The parents, Jessica Ross and Traveon Taylor Sr. have filed lawsuits against the hospital and the doctor but the first suit is about the damage done to the family by the doctor hired to do the autopsy of baby Isaiah, Dr. Jackson Gates. Dr. Gates posted pictures and video of the autopsy without the parents knowledge or permission and a jury awards the parents $2 million in damages.

Transcript Highlights
00:04.96 Introduction

00:48.33 Parental grief with loss of a child

04:45.27 Use of forceps during childbirth

06:37.45 The death of baby Isaiah

10:04.56 Explanation of child birth options

14:28.88 Doctor applied enough force to decapitate baby

20:30.53 Baby Isaiah head placed on body so it wouldn't fall off

25:19.76 Funeral home reported decapitation

30:06.68 Head removed during delivery

35:09.52 Paying for autopsy

39:42.33 Lawsuit filed when autopsy doctor placed images of autopsy on social media

44:59.93 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.7	I want to say something to you today, and I want you to hear me right and understand.
0:15.7	In my opinion, and this comes from both professional and personal experience.
0:25.6	I wager that there is no darker place, particularly for a parent, to be in,
0:33.6	than when it comes to the loss of a child.
0:41.6	You're looking for rock bottom, you're here.
0:46.1	It seems like nothing else in the world matters.
0:53.2	It's as if a part of you has died as well, and it has.
0:59.6	I want to revisit a case today that we've talked about previously on bodybacks.
1:09.4	And the reason I want to talk about this today is that there have been developments.
1:20.9	There have been developments in the case involving a tiny little life, a life that died in the midst of childbirth,
1:33.2	and the horror that followed that event.
1:39.0	What I'm talking about is the early premature death of a little one named Trivion, Isaiah, Taylor,
1:51.9	Jr., otherwise known as baby Isaiah.
1:57.7	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Back.
2:03.3	Day back, when we initially covered baby Isaiah's death, I remember following that episode, I felt
2:19.5	I needed to go take a shower.
2:22.9	And I needed to scrub my brain.
2:25.5	Because I couldn't believe
2:27.1	some of the things that we were hearing
2:29.8	that were coming out of, well, let's face it, the
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