Baby-without-face: family insist obstetrician must pay

Following the archiving of the criminal case against ‘Dr Horror’ taken out by the family of little Rodrigo (click here), a baby born without a face (or indeed part of his cranium), the family has said it will take its fight ‘to the final consequences’. Rodrigo’s godmother Tânia Contente tells reporters Rodrigo’s parents want compensation for the fact that obstetrician Artur Carvalho missed the child’s deformities in all the routine ultrasounds (click here).