Coroner: Dad collapses on infant daughter, she survives 3 days
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNNhttp://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/us/louisiana-infant-survives-dead-father/index.html?hpt=us_c2
Jason Fields had been dead for three days before his young son came to visit him in in home. When the boy went to his neighbors house to report his fathers death, they did not believe him, but they followed the juvenile home where Fields was indeed dead. However, what they found was more than a corpse: trapped beneath it was Fields' daughter, Betty Jean, who had survived the three days. It is amazing that she survived. She was then transported to University Health Shreveport for treatment, and she is expected to be released soon.
When I first saw this article, I was baffled that two people could be missing for so long, and it go unnoticed. Yet, after thinking about it people are missing everyday, so it is rather amazing that these two were found when they were--a day longer and Betty Jean would probably have been dead. This just makes me feel extremely lucky that I have people that would miss me
This is an amazing story! It surprises me that an infant could survive the weight of a collapsing father, then be able to live three days without food or water, but how traumatic of an experience for the daughter to not only see her father die but be suffocated by his corpse as her last memory of her father.
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