DRUNK DOCTOR KILLS NEW MUM DURING C-SESSION
Glowing in the evening sunshine from ‘pregnancy update’
pictures shared on social media, expectant mother Xynthia Hawke looks ecstatic
to be on the verge of motherhood.
But days later, the 28-year-old Briton was killed by a
doctor, who was reported to have been drunk and to have botched her care during
childbirth.
Fighting back tears outside the home where they
settled a few months ago, her French partner Yannick Balthazar, 33, said: ‘It
is a very difficult time for us. We are in mourning.
I am looking after my family, my son is what is
important to me now. We need to be with our family now. I am going to let
justice do its job.’
Miss Hawke required a caesarean section after going
into labour last month in Ustaritz, the village in the French Pyrenees where
she had moved with Mr Balthazar.
After their healthy baby boy was delivered at a
private maternity clinic in Orthez on September 26, a resuscitation procedure
went horribly wrong.
Anaesthetist Helga Wauters, 45, allegedly inserted a
tube into Miss Hawke’s oesophagus instead of her windpipe. Miss Hawke was
starved of oxygen, had a heart attack and went into a coma.
She was taken to the nearby Centre Hospitalier in Pau,
where she died on September 30.
The doctor, who has admitted a ‘pathological problem
with alcohol’, now faces five years behind bars after being charged with aggravated
manslaughter.
Wauters, who is Belgian, was working despite
difficulties with ‘expression, comprehension and reactivity’, according to a
local prosecutor.
Staff said she was slurring her words to the extent
that she ‘could not be understood and she did not seem to understand what
people were saying’, a source added.
When questioned on the day Miss Hawke died, Wauters
was found to have 216milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood – the
equivalent of four bottles of wine. The legal driving limit in the UK is
80milligrams.
Miss Hawke grew up in North Petherton, Somerset, where
she excelled at her comprehensive, Haygrove School, and won a prize for outstanding
achievement in GCSE French.
She holidayed in France with her parents Fraser and
Clare, now 61 and 56, and her older sister Iris, 30, before moving to Paris to
study at the University of London Institute.
If five years behind bars is
all you need in exchange for carelessly shutting off another person’s life,
then I’ll say even Justice has a sense of humour.
Mature Minds Talk.
Curled from: Daily Mail
omg!... So sad. RIP
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