Top NJ Hospital Kept Newborn Away From Parents, Lawsuit Says

A lawsuit filed against Morristown Medical Center accuses the hospital of separating a newborn from her parents for days without any court order, child welfare directive, or law enforcement involvement to justify it. The parents, Chico Range and Jessica Gonzalez, say the father was barred from the hospital entirely after staff deemed his behavior “threatening,” and the mother’s visits with her baby were restricted to limited daytime hours, with the hospital’s own patient relations director later attributing it to an “internal administrative determination.” The family is seeking compensatory and punitive damages from Morristown Medical Center and Atlantic Health Systems.