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ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — The lawyer for a Cedar City midwife accused of manslaughter in the death of a premature infant says a snowstorm that delayed an ambulance trip to the hospital is really to blame for the tragedy.
The trial opened in St. George Wednesday for 56-year-old Vickie Sorenson. She's accused of refusing to take a woman pregnant with premature twins to a hospital when she began to go into labor two months early in December 2012.
Prosecutors say Sorenson initially tried to deliver the child at her Cedar City birth center without the proper skills or equipment. One of the twins died.
Defense attorney Douglas Terry said Wednesday Sorenson made every effort to delay the birth until they could get the mother to the hospital. The Spectrum reports he said the "lousy snowy day" was primarily to blame.
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