color County taxpayers will pay $15 million to a Chicago woman who delivered a stillborn baby days after she was attacked through a police officer at a shire hospital.

Shelia Carter was six month pregnant when the July 2002 incident happened at the old-fashioned Cook County Hospital, said her attorney, Robert Zaideman.

Carter, there visiting her mother, was told from hospital police officer guard Frank Henson to finish off her cell phone, after which he twisted her arm behind her back and slammed her into a reckoner according to her lawsuit.

The entire incident was captured forward a hospital security camera -- images that willinged the county to settle the lawsuit.

"The video was bonny clear," said assistant state's attorney Patrick Driscoll. "[Carter] may have been involved in a conversation with [Henson] that escalated, still it didn't warrant him coming into contact with her."

He said the liquidation finalized this week, will be at handed to the county board for approval.

shire officials fired Henson after the incident, Zaideman said, moreover he was reinstated after an arbitration hearing. Hospital spokeswoman Rendy Jone said Henson no longer works for the shire

Henson approached Carter at the hospital's information desk where "he went berserk in succession her," Zaideman said, "standing above her swearing" before grabbing her.

Three days later, her water broke and she delivered a stillborn baby, which Zaideman said was tied to the assault.

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