Baby Lee's organs were 'dumped like a bit of rubbish'

Cork mother Leona Bermingham has said she will not give up her fight against Cork University Maternity Hospital in searching for answers as to why her deceased son’s brain was incinerated in Antwerp, Belgium, without her consent

Leona Bermingham and Glenn Callanan's twins were delivered at 33 weeks, on September 19, 2019, by emergency C-section. Baby Lee passed away hours later. Pictures courtesy: Leona Bermingham

A mother in Cork has said she will not give up her fight against Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) in searching for answers as to why her deceased son’s brain was incinerated in Antwerp, Belgium, without her consent.

Leona Bermingham said she was “absolutely shocked” to find out that 17 other families also received the news that the organs and tissue of deceased babies had been incinerated overseas without parental consent.