B.C. parents sue woman with history of illegal midwifery over botched home birth – CBC
Lawsuit accuses activist Gloria Lemay of acting as ‘birth attendant’ in spite of court order
Dec 05, 2024
A self-described Vancouver Island “childbirth activist” prohibited from serving as a midwife is facing a lawsuit from the parents of a child who was allegedly injured during a botched home birth.
Gloria Lemay has been banned for more than two decades from performing midwifery services — but according to a B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit filed this week, the Duncan woman allegedly contracted with a Chemainus couple in 2021 to act as their “midwife or birth attendant.”
The couple is now suing Lemay over damages they say their child suffered to his genitalia during 18 hours of labour, before they made the “difficult decision to abandon their home birth and attend the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital for emergency medical attention.”
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/birth-midwife-gloria-lemay-lawsuit-1.7401477
