NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - A Connecticut judge has awarded nearly $32 million to the parents of a premature baby who died after Yale New Haven Hospital fed him cow-based products without their consent.

The court ruled Thursday that the hospital failed to get permission before giving Aries-Reign Peterson cow-based formula and fortifier, which contributed to his death from necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC.

Aries was born extremely premature on January 30, 2018, at just 27 weeks. His parents, Anika Hunte and Dane Peterson, wanted him fed only breast milk.

When Aries began losing weight in February 2018, doctors added a cow-based fortifier to his mother’s breast milk. But the parents say they were never told the “human milk fortifier” was actually made from cow’s milk or that cow-based prod

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