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Nurse accidentally drags baby girl from hospital crib, killing her, OH mom says
On March 4, Ellieana J. Peyton was born at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Just 27 days later, she died after suffering a head injury from a fall at the hospital, according to the Franklin County Coroner's report.
After she was born, Ellieana was placed in the NICU due to a cardiovascular disease called Cardiomyopathy, according to a GoFundMe page.
Her mother Mackenzie Marshall said in a March 12 Facebook post that Ellieana had a heart surgery and everything went 'amazing.'
'Her numbers looked great, everything went great,' she said in the post. 'I'm so happy. Crying happy tears.'
Then, on March 25, Marshall took to Facebook again, this time sharing that Ellieana had been injured at the hospital.
'The hospital nurse put the cords hooked to my daughter in her pocket and forgot she had the cords in her pocket and dragged my daughter out of bed when she went to...leave,' she said in the post.
Marshall and Ellieana's dad went home to shower when they got the call that their baby was 'dropped,' the GoFundMe page said.
'She already had a 20 percent chance of life and this hospital wants to be so careless and be so dumb with a NEWBORN BABY. my baby has a fractured skull bleeding in her (expletive) head,' Marshall wrote March 26 on Facebook. 'I left for (an) hour to come take a shower and get the worst phone call no parent should ever receive when (they're) supposed to be helping her and taking care of her.'
'Due to patient privacy, we are unable to provide information about specific patients,' a spokesperson for Nationwide Children's Hospital told McClatchy News June 4 in an email.
The coroner's report obtained by McClatchy News said Ellieana's injuries were caused by a fall from a crib. Her cause of death was listed as 'Congenital dilated cardiomyopathy complicated by blunt force head injuries.' The manner of death was ruled accidental.
'Ellie mommy misses you so much already, I just sat in your room and cried. Your bed's empty, your car seat was empty on the way home. This isn't real,' Marshall wrote on Facebook. 'I just want you back.'
Ellieana's obituary said she had 'the most contagious smile that would light up the room' and brown eyes that 'you could stare into for hours.'
'You (were) a gift from God and as a gift I will cherish you for life,' her dad, Tyler Peyton, wrote on Facebook.
McClatchy News reached out to Marshall for additional comments but did not hear back.
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