A distraught mother whose newborn son's organs were kept for teaching purposes after he died has had her hopes of compensation dashed.
Devastated - Dawn Brown next to a picture of baby Aaron
Dawn Brown, 29, of Langham Drive, Clacton, who has been fighting for compensation for the trauma, said she was devastated.
Earlier this year, a High Court judge ruled that compensation would not be paid to families where coroners' post mortem examinations into the child's death had been held.
Now the solicitors' firm representing the families has decided not to appeal against the decision, due to the cost and the high risk of losing.
The single mother, who has an 11-year-old daughter, said: "I just don't know what to do but I am not going to sit back. This is not right and they are not going to get away with it."
Miss Brown did not find out that her two-week-old son Aaron's heart and lungs had been retained by Guy's Hospital in London until more than six years later, in 2001.
Eventually, the organs were returned to be buried with his body.
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Published Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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