The license of a Florida doctor accused of medical malpractice was revoked on Friday by the Board of Medicine, a division of the Florida Department of Health.

 

Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique was found guilty of medical malpractice and delegating medical responsibilities to unlicensed personnel in a case of abortion back in 2006.

 

According to the complaint, Dr. Renelique was scheduled to perform an abortion on Sycloria Williams, a teenager who was 23 weeks pregnant. Williams, then 18, had been given laminaria, a drug that dilates the cervix a day prior to abortion. She was then told to come in the next day at 10 a.m. ‘for safety’ reasons.

 

The next day, Williams gave birth at a Hialeah clinic after waiting hours for Dr. Renelique to arrive. Meanwhile, she gave birth to the baby helped by one of the clinic owners who put the baby in a bag that was thrown away. The infants’ decomposing remains were found by police a week later.

 

Williams sued the doctor saying “she witnessed the murder of her daughter” and “sustained severe emotional distress, shock and psychic trauma which have resulted in discernible bodily injury.”

 

According to a police affidavit requesting a search warrant for the clinic Williams “observed the baby moving and gasping for air for approximately five minutes.”

 

“Dr. Renelique's failure to practice medicine with that level of care, skill and treatment that is recognized as being acceptable, as well as his willingness to falsify medical records, poses a serious and immediate danger to the public,” the health department said.

 

Dr. Renelique did not comment on the decision.