Medical examiner who performed Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy resigns

New York City’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Barbara Sampson, who oversaw the controversial autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein, introduced her resignation on Monday for a job within the non-public sector, in line with ABC News.

Dr. Sampson, the primary girl to function NYC’s chief medical examiner, held her submit as chief for 9 of the 23 years she was with the company.

In addition to overseeing the autopsy of infamous pedophile and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, Sampson oversaw the autopsies of Eric Garner and Joan Rivers, two different controversial high-profile circumstances.

Sampson advised ABC News that her job as a medical examiner all through the COVID-19 pandemic was grueling however didn’t specify as as to whether or not it added to her departure.

“We were so overwhelmed with the number of fatalities here in the city that we needed every OCME employee to be part of our COVID response,” Sampson advised ABC News.

Dr. Sampson’s resignation got here the identical day the trial for Ghislaine Maxwell kicked-off in Manhattan. Maxwell is accused of being the confederate to Jeffrey Epstein in his alleged worldwide intercourse trafficking ring, and has been charged with 4 counts of attractive minors and two counts of intercourse trafficking.

The coroner’s workplace dominated that Epstein died by suicide after he allegedly hung himself in his cell with a bedsheet on Aug. 10, 2019. Epstein’s reason behind demise turned controversial after it was revealed that he suffered a break to the “hyoid” bone. This bone can break for these who grasp themselves however, it’s extra frequent in circumstances of murder by strangulation.

In addition, officers on the Metropolitan Correctional Center broke protocol and didn’t correctly monitor him. Epstein was not checked on by his correctional officers for “several hours” earlier than he died, and was additionally faraway from suicide watch weeks earlier than. The correctional facility’s cameras have been additionally allegedly “not working” on the time of Epstein’s demise.

On her guiding rules, Sampson advised ABC News, “Keep with the truth and what is based in science and in medicine you can’t go too far astray.”