Family of toddler found alive in hospital morgue to file lawsuit: ‘I just want justice for my son’

(NewsNation) — An Arizona woman is sharing the story of how her toddler son was pronounced dead at the hospital early this year only to be found, hours later, stirring beneath a sheet in the morgue.

Eighteen-month-old Vincent Fiordilino was found unresponsive in a swimming pool on Feb. 8 and rushed to Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in Gilbert. After attempting to revive the child, medical staff made the formal call to pronounce him dead, even though some observers insisted they saw signs of life, the boy’s mother, Alexus Fiordilino said.

“A nurse or a doctor said that it was just agonal breathing, which, is like, I guess, a death gurgle,” she said during an interview on NewsNation’s “Jesse Weber Live” on Wednesday. “Through the grief of it all, I kind of just accepted that answer.”

John Brewer, the family’s attorney, said a transporter for the county medical examiner’s office later came to retrieve the boy’s body from the hospital morgue and encountered an........

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