Baby delivered from brain-dead Virginia woman dies at 5 weeks old

Published: 2005-09-13

ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) -- Susan Anne Catherine Torres, the 5-week-old baby of Jason and Susan Torres, died at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 12 of heart failure following surgery for a perforated intestine at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, according to the hospital's statement. The child was born Aug. 2 after a three-month struggle to keep her mother alive. Susan Torres suffered brain damage in May from melanoma cancer that had spread to her brain and was kept on life support until the baby could be born. The mother died Aug. 3 after life support was removed. "After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss," said Justin Torres, the baby's uncle, in the family's statement. "We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susan's homecoming with the world."

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