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20-05-2025
- IOL News
Court hears evidence against midwife accused of causing baby deaths and disabilities
Now former midwife Yolande Maritz Fouchee is facing 14 charges in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria after several babies she delivered were born disabled and some died. Image: Zelda Venter The Pretoria midwife Yolande Maritz Fouchee, who allegedly caused babies to either die or be born disabled while she was in charge of delivering them, is facing 14 charges in the Gauteng High Court, including one of culpable homicide. Fouchee, 48, now a deregistered nurse, denied any wrongdoing, and in a lengthy plea, explained that she did everything according to the book when she delivered the babies. But one of the mothers, Carien Möller, on Tuesday testified that her daughter Sophia was born in July 2019 with cerebral palsy. She is blaming Fouchee for her child's condition. Fouchee, in turn, claimed that the child was born this way because Möller had a bladder infection while she was pregnant and she refused to take antibiotics to clear it up. The court was told that baby Sophia was blue in the face when she was born and that she had to be resuscitated for about 20 minutes before she could breathe normally. The 14 charges against Fouchee include nine charges of assault on four mothers and their babies. It is claimed that she gave the mothers Cytotec and Oxytocin before delivering the babies, allegedly to hasten the birthing process. They were allegedly told that it was a Rescue Remedy which they were to consume. The court heard that Fouchee handled between 16 to 24 deliveries a month at her You&Me delivery centre in Pretoria East, for which she charged from R16,000 upwards per delivery. One of the charges Fouchee is facing is that she called her daughter in to assist her with the deliveries. Her daughter, the prosecution said, does not hold any medical qualifications. The culpable homicide charge against Fouchee follows the death of a baby, born in 2020, who had died within minutes of her birth. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Another charge relates to a baby boy born with cerebral palsy and visual impairment. It is claimed that Fouchee was unable to deliver the baby and refused to transport the mother to hospital, so that she could give birth via an emergency C-section. It is claimed that Fouchee instead used forceps in an attempt to deliver the baby, despite the pleas of the mother that she wanted to go to hospital instead. It is alleged that her actions during labour resulted in oxygen deprivation to the fetus, causing injury to the brain. The baby was born blue and unresponsive, and the prosecution claimed that it cannot be ruled out that the baby's bleeding on the brain was caused by the forceps used by Fouchee. The mothers are all due to still testify in Fouchee's trial, with Möller being the first mother to take the stand. She explained that she saw Fouchee's credentials on Facebook and she was very impressed with them. As she delivered her first child via C-section, she wanted a natural, water birth for her second child. A doula who assisted Möller in her delivery told the court that Fouchee had a 'we call the baby protocol' in place, which meant that she (Fouchee) usually decided when a baby should be born. She then had methods at hand in which to enhance the births, the court was told. The trial is proceeding before Judge Papi Mosopa, who is sitting on the bench with an assessor, who is a medical doctor, to assist him.
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Groom in Tears After Bride Recreates His Favorite Scene from 'She's All That 'During Wedding Ceremony! (Exclusive)
Kelly Hazen married Christian Avelar on July 3, 2024 at Liberty House in Jersey City, New Jersey During their wedding ceremony, the bride surprised the groom by recreating the heartfelt staircase scene from his favorite romantic comedy . Hazen secretly had the DJ switch her wedding processional song to the 1999 movie scene's song, "Kiss Me" "I also started tearing up myself," Hazen tells PEOPLE. "I blew him a kiss from the top of the aisle once I could see that he realized the surprise" A groom couldn't help but cry when his bride surprised him during their wedding ceremony. When Kelly Hazen, 32, tied the knot with Christian Avelar, 32, on July 3, 2024 at Liberty House in Jersey City, New Jersey, she wanted to make the day extra special for him. So she surprised him by recreating an iconic scene from his favorite '90s rom-com. Videographer Kevin Fonash with Fonash Studios captured the heartwarming moment Hazen's wedding processional song switched from Disclosure's "You & Me (Flume Remix)" to Sixpence None The Richer's "Kiss Me." "I thought at first maybe the DJ messed up the songs," Avelar tells PEOPLE. "Once the song started playing and I saw Kel start smiling I realized — she's playing Laney Boggs' song!" Related: 'She's All That' : See the Cast of the Teen Classic Then and Now Romantic comedy classic She's All That follows high school hotshot Zach Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr.) agreeing to the seemingly impossible challenge of transforming nerdy outcast Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook) into the school's next prom queen in just six weeks. When "the new, not improved, but different" Boggs is revealed, Siler is left in awe as she walks down a staircase. "Kiss Me" was playing during the 1999 movie scene. "That's how I always pictured seeing my future wife before coming down the aisle," Avelar says. In the wedding video, which now has more than 2 million views on TikTok, Hazen stands at the top of a staircase with her original wedding song playing. Avelar's expression changes from happiness to confusion when the song suddenly switches to "Kiss Me." The bride locks eyes with the groom, who quickly realizes the song's significance and smiles tearfully. Like Boggs, Hazen left Avelar in awe as she gracefully walked down the steps in her stunning dress. "I also started tearing up myself," Hazen tells PEOPLE. "I blew him a kiss from the top of the aisle once I could see that he realized the surprise." She adds: "Our wedding guests picked up on the '90s rom-com cue — one guest said to me, 'That was so cute! I started falling in love with you at the top of the stairs too!' " She then made her way down the aisle, accompanied by her father, to "Canon in D." Hazen had been planning the sweet surprise for four months, with only DJ Ridd from Baseline Productions in on the secret. "A couple months into wedding planning I told my now-husband, Christian, I don't think I have ever seen She's All That from start to finish, only bits and pieces. He was so insistent it was a classic and I HAD to see it," Hazen recalls. "Once I saw his reaction to the scene, I knew the song for the ceremony intro would be perfect." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Hazen and Avelar's love story would also make for a great rom-com. The two met in sixth grade math class at Frelinghuysen Middle School in New Jersey in 2003. Their friendship blossomed into romance during their teenage years at Morristown High School when they had "nearly the same schedule" junior year. "We fell in love flirting in Italian class and joking around together in Social Studies before graduating together in June 2010," Hazen says. Related: Bride Leaves Groom in Tears at Altar After She Secretly Changed the Song She Walked Down the Aisle to (Exclusive) But it wasn't until Hazen graduated from Kent State University in Ohio in May 2014 and moved back to her home state that she reconnected with Avelar. The pair started hanging out to watch soccer games, and had their first date on July 12, 2014 at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. "The rest is history," she says. "We got engaged July 3, 2021 and got married exactly three years later on July 3, 2024." Read the original article on People
