Detroit EMT Who Wouldn't Try to Save Dying Baby Gets 3 Months

Ann Marie Thomas (WXYZ Facebook Live)

In one of the more shameful stories involving a Detroit city employee, ex-EMT medical technician Ann Marie Thomas was convicted in May of willful neglect of duty when she failed in 2015 to respond to a dispatch in the northwest section of the city involving an eight-month-old infant on Glastonbury Street who ended up dying.

On Thursday, Ann Marie Thomas, 48, is sentenced to three months in jail and two years probation. An additional three months in jail are set aside for now.

Thomas was parked a couple minutes away when the family called 911 for help on May 30, 2015 in the 19900 block of Glastonbury Street. The baby had stopped breathing and later died.

WDIV cites city records saying that Thomas refused to go to the home, concerned family members might get emotional while EMT tried reviving the child. She stopped the vehicle en route to the home. She was less than a mile away. A backup unit had to come.

She was fired in 2015.

After the sentencing, friends and family hugged her, WXYZ shows in a Facebook Live feed.