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Grieving Arkansas mom sues doctors for harvesting 'many organs' from dead son without her consent
An Arkansas mom is suing healthcare providers for harvesting 'many organs' from her dead son without getting her consent first.
Irma Huckleby has launched a suit against Helena Regional Medical Center in eastern Arkansas, saying staff had 'reckless disregard' for her 'extreme mental and emotional distress.'
They removed 'many organs' from her 49-year-old son, Kelly Huckleby, and donated them for transplant to other patients 'without the consent' of his family, says the four-page lawsuit.
'The defendants owed the Huckleby family a duty to use ordinary care for the safety and preservation of their loved one's body,' the suit says.
The hospital did not answer DailyMail.com's request for comment.
Kelly Huckleby, the second oldest of ten children, weathered 'challenges' in life but 'loved singing gospel songs, and he didn't hesitate to sing every song by Michael Jackson,' says his obituary
Bereaved mother Irma Huckleby endured 'extreme mental and emotional distress,' says her lawsuit
It's just the latest example of family members in the South complaining of organs being removed from deceased relatives without their approval.
Kelly Huckleby was found 'non-responsive' on March 11, 2024, at his home in Helena, Arkansas.
He was taken by ambulance to Helena Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
He then 'had many organs donated without the consent of' his mother, it adds.
The suit takes aim at the hospital, Phillips Hospital Company, and medical staff Amanda Young, Kerri Neal, Velashia Craig, Alex Harris, Julie Wallace, and Bobbie Rubio.
The violation 'was so outrageous in character, so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency,' says the suit.
Their actions should 'regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society,' says the suit.
It was filed at the Circuit Court of Phillips County last month.
Doctors at Helena Regional Medical Center allegedly removed 'many organs' from him without asking his mother
It remains unclear what happened to Kelly Huckleby's organs after they were harvested
Lawyer Donald Knapp filed the suit at the Circuit Court of Phillips County last month
The bereaved mom seeks damages and her legal costs paid.
Kelly Huckleby, the second oldest of ten children, weathered 'challenges' in life, his obituary says.
But he stuck with a Baptist background and 'loved singing gospel songs, and he didn't hesitate to sing every song by Michael Jackson.'
The US South has been dogged by repeated claims of shady organ procedures in recent months.
The families of five dead prison inmates in April sued the Alabama Department of Corrections and the University of Alabama over harvesting organs without their consent.
The lawsuits filed in state court describe similar circumstances in all five cases.
Each of the inmates was sent to UAB to have autopsies performed after their deaths, but when the bodies were released to the family, they found they were missing some or all their internal organs, they say.
In most of the cases, relatives said they never received their loved one's organs despite requests, the papers show, and were told it wasn't the university's policy to return them after an autopsy.