A South Side woman alleges in a suit that Advocate Christ Medical Center assumed that, because she was Black, she abused her infant son
When Jillian Robinson brought her 10-month-old son to Advocate Christ Medical Center because of a strange mark on his ear, doctors thought it was a bruise and assumed, that because she was Black, she had abused him, Robinson alleges in a lawsuit filed late last month.
Robinson, 36, of Beverly, is being represented by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and law firm Burke, Warren, MacKay, & Serritella P.C., on a pro bono basis. The Committee for Civil Rights is a nonprofit made up of civil rights lawyers and advocates who work on issues related to racial equity and economic opportunity.
Later that week, however, Robinson noticed that the mark was not better, and the area around it seemed more irritated. She had a telehealth appointment with her son’s usual pediatric center, and she was told to take him to a hospital, according to the lawsuit. During Robinson’s time at the hospital, a staff member commented to her that the hospital treats Black families who bring in their children with bruises differently than white families that do the same, the lawsuit alleges. Robinson said staff members also commented on her son’s curly hair and fair skin and asked about his father.
“To say I was blindsided is an understatement,” Robinson told the Tribune. “I was made to feel like I was crazy. Everything that was being said to me was against rational, logical thought, from my point of view.”
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