The Board of Medicine revoked a Florida doctor's license on Friday in a case of a teenager who went to have an abortion but instead gave birth to a live baby who ended up dead when clinic staffers put it into a plastic bag and threw it in the trash.

Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique was found by the board to be in violation of Florida statutes by committing medical malpractice, delegating responsibility to unlicensed personnel, and failing to keep an accurate medical record. According to the suit Sycloria Williams was 18 and while being treated for a fall discovered that she was 23 weeks pregnant. She went to the clinic for an abortion on the morning of July 20, 2006 after having been given drugs to dilate her cervix.

Williams said Renelique was not at the clinic and she was given two pills after which she "felt a large pain" and delivered a baby girl, according to the suit. "The staff began screaming and pandemonium ensued. Sycloria watched in horror and shock as her baby writhed with her chest rising and falling as she breathed." The suit went on to say that the clinic co-owner entered the room and cut the baby's umbilical cord with a pair of shears. She "then scooped up the baby and placed the live baby, placenta and afterbirth in a red plastic biohazard bag, which she sealed, and then threw bag and the baby in a trash can."

Staff at the clinic did not call 911 or seek medical assistance for Williams or the baby. The suit said Renelique arrived at the clinic about an hour later and gave Williams a shot to put her to sleep. "She awoke after the procedure and was sent home still in complete shock." An anonymous caller notified the police of the incident who told them the baby was born alive and disposed of.

Nothing turned up at the initial two search warrants, but officers executing a third warrant "found the decomposing body of a baby in a cardboard box in a closet," the suit said. The police when the incident occurred in 2006 said a fetus born alive cannot be put to death even if its mother intended to have an abortion.

The lawsuit said DNA testing linked the baby to Williams and an autopsy showed it had filled its lungs with air prior to death. Documents from the state Department of Health said its cause of death was determined to be "extreme prematurity."

In January Williams, sued Renelique, the clinic and its staff, seeking damages. She alleges in her suit that "she witnessed the murder of her daughter" and said she "sustained severe emotional distress, shock and psychic trauma which have resulted in discernible bodily injury."

"This is not about a pot of gold," said Tom Pennekamp, her attorney. "What this is about is right and wrong and making a statement, making sure it doesn't happen to other young women."

Renelique declined to comment after the hearing and Joseph Harrison, the attorney representing Renelique at the license revocation hearing in Tampa, said Renelique has not decided whether to appeal. Pennekamp, William's attorney said she has declined to speak publicly about the case and added she suffers from post-traumatic stress because of the experience, he said.

The Department of Health had recommended that Dr. Renelique's license be suspended, but the board decided to revoke it, and he will not be able to practice medicine in Florida. "Dr. Renelique's failure to practice medicine with that level of care, skill and treatment that is recognized as being acceptable, as well as his willingness to falsify medical records, poses a serious and immediate danger to the public," the health department said.

The state attorney's office, meanwhile, said its criminal investigation into the incident is ongoing and no charges have been filed.