RACINE, Wis.
A 20-year-old woman gave birth Wednesday morning in the Racine County Jail.
Accusations are flying that calls for help were made but that hours passed before jail staffed arrived to help the woman deliver the child.
WISN 12 News talked with the mother of the cellmate who helped the prisoner deliver the child.
She said that her daughter repeatedly called for help but no one came.
Tamara Povliot said that her daughter told her the woman started bleeding at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning. She said her daughter pushed the emergency call button four times to no avail.
Povliot said that the pregnant prisoner delivered her baby in the toilet nearly four hours later.
"She took the baby out of the toilet. She let them know over the intercom that the baby was born. And the guards came in. The baby was breathing, but by the time they got the baby to the hospital the baby was dead," Povliot said. "If they would have answered at 1 a.m. and gotten her to the hospital, I believe they could have stopped that or at least done some other preventive measures.”
The Racine County Sheriff's department spokesman said jail staff responded to the woman's cell at about 5:15 a.m. and found her giving birth.
The baby was pronounced dead 39 minutes later at a hospital.
The spokesman said, “The incident is being investigated by Racine County investigators. An autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death."
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