The Parents Of Stillborn Children May File A Camp Lejeune Water Lawsuit

Miscarriages, stillbirths, and birth defects do not appear to have been addressed in the new expedited claim procedures

Sunday, September 17, 2023 - The infant section within the Camp Lejeune cemetery is a tragically unhappy location, a saddening symbol of the sacrifices borne by US Marine and civilian families. Situated within the extensive grounds of this historic North Carolina military base, the enormity of the baby section serves as a reminder that something was amiss. There are just too many headstones at the cemetery where the date of birth and date of death are the same. Neat rows of diminutive gravestones, often adorned with toys, teddy bears, or baby shoes, stand as solemn markers for infants who departed this world as a result of the water contamination crisis that plagued Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987. Each stone signifies shattered dreams of parents who have lived for decades thinking that the death of their infant was somehow their fault. Only now are parents making the connection between the Camp Lejeune water contamination cover-up, and the death of their child at birth.

Filing a Camp Lejeune Justice Act claim can be a simple, straightforward procedure, or much more complicated. The Navy assumes everyone falls into one of two categories or "tiers" as they announced a few weeks ago. Those tiers are based on the type of illness they are presumed to have developed from drinking the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. " Those specific diseases fall in two payment tiers. The first-tier diseases are kidney cancer, liver cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia, and bladder cancer. The second-tier illnesses are multiple myeloma, Parkinson's disease, kidney disease (end-stage renal disease), and systemic sclerosis/systemic scleroderma," according to Stars and Stripes.com. The Navy will also pay an additional $100,000 if the Marine or family member dies as a result of their disease. The parents of children who died at Camp Lejeune may file a Camp Lejeune water lawsuit.

What the rapid payment program fails to address, however, are the infants that died at birth as a result of their mothers being pregnant while at Camp Lejeune and having drank the contaminated water. The Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) has found more than 100 instances of children who died who were born to mothers who were pregnant at Camp Lejeune. " Officials at the Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention have collated data since 2000 and found at least 103 cases of childhood cancers and birth defects potentially linked to the toxic water in the 1960s and 1970s," according to the US Sun.com. The US Sun tells several stories of women who were pregnant at Camp Lejune in the 1980s, and drank and cooked with their Camp Lejeune tap water, whose child was stillborn. One woman detected abnormal spotting just days before she was scheduled to give birth. When she went to the hospital the doctors could not detect a heartbeat in the baby. This Marine Corps wife blamed herself for causing the infant's death, like many others did, for decades. It was not until Barack Obama publicized and signed into law the "Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act," did these women and others made the connection between using the contaminated water on the base and their infant's death. Many other children have been born at Camp Lejeune who died from birth abnormalities like Sally McGlothlin whose child was stillborn after suffering from anencephaly (most of the brain missing) during pregnancy.

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