NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A woman whose wrists and ankles were shackled to a hospital bed as she went into labor while in NYPD custody has received $750,000 to settle a lawsuit she filed after the incident, according to a report.
The woman reached the settlement with New York City and several NYPD officers on Wednesday after suing them last October, CNN reported.
The mother of two told CNN she was already experiencing contractions when police arrested her on a misdemeanor assault charge in December 2018.
On Dec. 17 of that year, police shackled her to a gurney and transported her to a hospital via ambulance, the outlet reported.
She was handcuffed to her hospital bed until nurses told the police officer monitoring her that she “needed to begin pushing and that the handcuffs were preventing her from receiving an epidural,” the lawsuit charged, according to the outlet.
“That was not my birth plan. I felt like a failure to my unborn child because that wasn’t something that was planned for neither of us,” she told the outlet. “I just didn’t feel like myself anymore after that. I feel like my memory got taken away. And still I’m in pain.”
A judge dismissed the misdemeanor assault charge and sealed the case against the woman months after she gave birth, the outlet reported.
The NYPD declined to provide a comment to CNN and the city’s Law Department didn’t respond to the outlet’s requests for comment.