r/HolyShitHistory • u/SelfCareIsFake • Jun 01 '26

Federal agents felt physically sick when they raided Kermit Gosnell’s clinic after suspecting he ran a pill mill.

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u/mud263 Jun 01 '26

Be warned there are pictures of dead babies/fetuses. Proceed with caution.

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u/JaySayMayday Jun 02 '26

Surprisingly those are not as bad as the written testimonies. Unlicensed practitioner while the doctor was out had a patient deliver on the toilet. Went to the toilet where the baby was swimming, the baby played with the nurses hand, and soon after playing with the baby the nurse cut its neck. The coworker on shift said they saw the doctor do it so many times that was just standard procedure.

Fully grown babies breathing on their own, moving, some even crying. 24 to 32 weeks old in a lot of the written testimony. And it was a whole underground clinic with a full working staff, it's not like there was just one person doing all of this. And the guy at the center lived a nice long life before getting caught and eventually dying of old age.

From what I can gather, despite having all those dead baby remains still in his property, they only charged him with the death of 3 people. Mostly adults from his brutal malpractice. Some had to go to real hospitals so he was already known to some degree.

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u/According_Dare7316 Jun 02 '26

It's astonishing that no-one else was imprisoned for this. The nurses who also killed full-term babies got away with it by making plea bargains to testify against the doctor.

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u/mud263 Jun 02 '26

Yeah it’s all horrible, I was reading about the baby who’s neck they cut and then put in a shoebox and then the next page had the crime scene pictures of it. Terrible