A Clayton County judge struck the defenses of a Riverdale medical practice and a doctor and nurse as a sanction for spoliation after determining that the severed tip of an infant’s penis—which had been stored in a refrigerator following an allegedly botched circumcision—was discarded after it became known that litigation was underway.
The order by State Court Judge Shalonda Jones-Parker said the destruction of the tissue, along with the clinic’s cleaning and returning to service a medical clamp used in the procedure, deprived the child’s mother of evidence vital to her case.
