Similarly, in the intensive care room, she alleged “lots of medical staff were rushing around … the staff seemed to be in a state of panic, and it didn’t seem to be controlled,” the outlet reports.
Child O allegedly had a stomach that “looked like [the film character] E.T.,” their father described in a video interview played to the court, the BBC reports.
“You could see his veins were all bright, bright blue,” he explained in the video while pointing to his hand, per the outlet.
“All of them were different colors,” he continued. “It looked like he had really bad prickly heat … you could see something through his veins.”
“On the face of it, everything had been going so well, it was never explained to us how it happened,” their mother said, the BBC reports. “As a family, we were naturally devastated.”
Twenty-four hours later, thealready-grieving parentslearned a second triplet, Child P, was allegedly experiencing a medical emergency that mirrored Child O’s.
“It was pandemonium and absolutely mental — it was worse than the day before,” their father described.
“We said, ‘There’s no way he’s staying at this hospital,'” the triplet’s father said, the BBC reports. “‘If you don’t take him, we’ll take him ourselves.'”
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“Lucy was extremely upset and emotional and in pieces — and almost as upset as we were,” the mother explained, per the BBC. “She brought [the babies] to see us in a cooling basket. She was in a floods of tears.”
The trial continues.
source: people.com
