The final horror of the situation revealed itself when the hospital called the parents to inform them that their baby was brain-dead. “We don’t have a son,” they said. The Oaxacan community, at least that part of it encountered by the public-health nurses in Santa Barbara County, rejected children with serious defects. They pretended that the child had never been born. Charity was informed that the little boy would live out his days in a medical orphanage.
Jfc the concept of a medical orphanage sounds like an actual horror movie invention
