We have solid proofs that the baby was born dead, said Stanislav Hristov, who participated in the preparation of the expert opinion on the death of the prematurely-born baby from the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa.

“The girl has been hiding her pregnancy for a long time and there was only one registered examination of her,” Hristov said Thursday in an interview for the Bulgarian private TV channel bTV.

He has explained that there have been changes in the amniotic fluid as a result of inflammation of the placenta. In his words, when the 17-year-old girl arrived in the hospital in an emergency, she already had dilation. She was taken to the delivery room where she gave birth very fast.

According to the standards, adopted in August, the fetus should be more than 600 grams and with certain height. However, according to Hristov, the prematurely-born baby had no chance for survival.

“We firmly prove that the baby was drowning in the amniotic fluid before being born. Ventilation was performed by a pediatrician right after it was born,” the expert said.

He added that the baby did not respond to these actions and was regarded as dead. It was then put in a room, where the nurse saw it move in the morning.

Hristov has explained that an embryo goes through various stages in its development and it repeats a person’s evolutionary development. In his words, in each of these stages it gains weight and height, but they are not necessarily indicators of its maturity.

According to the expert, the nervous system does not always correspond to the weight and height of the fetus.

“There are such cases, which are described in the world literature. In this case, the brain death occurred in the mother’s womb. Spinal impulses begin. The less developed the fetus is, the more pronounced they are. Most often, these are respiratory movements or twitching of the limbs that mimic life,” Hristov said.

In his words, then the doctors have begun discussing the case on the phone and the authorities have decided that they were killing the baby.

“There was no pressure on the experts who performed the expert opinion. There were doubts that we delayed the report. Yes, we delayed it with a couple of days, but only because it was 40 pages long,” Hristov said.

His statement was regarding the accusations of the Bulgarian right-wing Blue Coalition, whose leader, Ivan Kostov, said that the publishing of the information, exonerating the doctors from the hospital in the central town of Gorna Oryahovitsa, was delayed on purpose with the hope it would remain largely unnoticed over the Holidays.

Four doctors were arrested November 30 on suspicions that they left a prematurely-born baby to die without helping it, and the scandal grew enormously as the police released tapes of conversations between the hospital head and some of the doctors, in which they use very cynical language with respect to the baby's fate and make it clear they are aware they could face charges over its death.

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