Hospital Loses Baby’s Body

Jersey City, NJ—Kalynn Moore, baby’s mother: “He didn’t deserve this whatsoever.“

Kalynn Moore was devastated after the loss of her son and now the heartbreak has been magnified because of what she believes is the hospital’s tragic mistake.

Moore: “I just lost my baby, now you all are telling me ya’ll misplaced his body.“

That’s what she says Christ Hospital officials told her just days after she gave birth to a son that she named Bashir, but she says it was the police who told her the truth…that Bashir’s remains had actually been thrown into the hospital’s garbage.

Moore: “It didn’t seem like it was real. It felt like it was a dream.“

On December 21st, she went to Jersey City’s Christ Hospital, a month shy of her delivery date. There were complications…doctors decided to perform a c-section.

In a statement, a hospital official said, “the stillborn was delivered…and placed in the hospital’s morgue.“

The question is: what happened after that?

Michael Anise, attorney: “We want to know what happened to this young lady’s baby. She wants her baby back so she can have…and you know what, the hospital owes it to her.“

Police are investigating and hospital officials say they are “...cooperating fully with the Jersey City Police Department in trying to locate the remains of a stillborn infant.“

This disheartened young mother was planning on a funeral, but now it’s not clear if she’ll ever get the closure she says she needs.

Moore: “I got a five-year-old at home and he was looking forward to having a little brother and now, poof, he’s gone. It doesn’t make no sense.“

Moore and her attorney dispute the hospital’s claims that the baby was stillborn. They say he was alive, but died minutes after delivery. They want to know why he died, and why his remains were not treated with respect.