Georgia nurse arrested after video of woman giving birth reportedly shared on Snapchat

A nurse at a Macon, Georgia, hospital was jailed Wednesday on a charge of eavesdropping for allegedly using her cellphone to record images of a woman in labor, a video of which was later said to have circulated on Snapchat.

The nurse, Rachel Elizabeth Fastow, of Macon, was being held without bond at the Bibb County jail at midday Wednesday pending a hearing before a magistrate.

According to an arrest warrant, the charges were brought by police at the Medical Center, operated by Atrium Health Navicent, where Fastow, 26, has been a nurse since early 2021.

The warrant mentions that on May 16, a mother was “giving birth to her son” in a delivery room when the mother and the child’s father, who was also present, “noticed RN Rachel Fastow enter the room with the flash of her phone on in her scrub top chest pocket.”