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Baby Survives Shooting By Suicidal Parents

7-month-old girl found alive with bullet in her chest 3 days later

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 3, 2010 9:39 AM CST

(Newser) – A 7-month-old Argentine baby has miraculously survived being shot as part of her parents’ apparent suicide pact. The baby girl was found covered in blood alongside the bodies of her parents and her 2-year-old brother, a bullet lodged in her chest, ABC News reports. She’d been there for three days; police were summoned to the house because neighbors noticed the smell of the bodies.

The unnamed infant was taken to a hospital in Goya, where doctors removed the bullet. They say it missed her vital organs, and that she is now out of danger. Her parents appear to have shot themselves and their children over global warming fears, according to a note reportedly written by the father, 56-year-old Francisco Otero, a wealthy faith healer and devotee of parapsychology.

The baby girl survived for three days with a bullet inside her.
The baby girl survived for three days with a bullet inside her.   (Shutterstock)
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DontLikeYou___
Mar 4, 2010 4:03 AM CST
~~~~ Her parents appear to have shot themselves and their children over global warming fears ~~~~

Some in this thread called them right wingers, because we all know right wingers have global warming fears.
Rocket448
Mar 3, 2010 11:17 PM CST
His neighbors said he never used "black magic". That indicts the entire district the guy lived in. Shame on him for inflicting such pain on an innocent. And, what in hell was he doing, marrying a woman half his age? The baby is better off on her own, although her sorry state is only marginally better.
901nanny
Mar 3, 2010 10:30 PM CST
What a pair of wingnuts, glad the innocent one survived and hope she can be placed in a sane family.

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