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McLEAN, Va. - An infant born last month to a severely brain-damaged woman died Monday after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine. Susan Anne Catherine Torres, born prematurely on Aug. 2 after her mother was on life support for three months, died of heart failure at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, a family statement said. The infant's condition had deteriorated rapidly during the weekend, according to the family. The baby's prematurity led to an intestinal disorder and an infection that overwhelmed her body, and she died just after midnight, the hospital said. Cancer patient Susan Rollin Torres, a...

Baby Susan Torres Dies From Infection After Miraculous Birth Arlington, VA (LifeNews.com) -- Little baby Susan Torres died last night after battling a severe infection. She became the subject of international attention after her father decided to allow her mother to remain alive to give birth following a tragic car accident rather than letting both mother and baby die. In an email provided to LifeNews.com, Justin Torres, baby Susan's uncle, said she passed away following an infection. An emergency surgery was unsuccessful. "I am saddened to have to report that, following emergency surgery that we had hoped would correct a...

Miracles of God and Miracles of Science by David M. Phelps, Associate Editor Doctors have delivered a 1 lb. 13 oz. baby girl from Susan Torres, a pregnant woman from Arlington, Virginia who had been on life support for three months since a cancer-induced stroke left her brain-dead. At the request of Torres’s husband, doctors kept her body alive long enough for the child to have a chance of life outside the womb, carefully monitoring both patients to make sure the cancer did not spread to the developing baby. When the child was finally delivered, the family released a statement...

Arlington, VA (LifeNews.com) -- Baby Susan Torres is doing well following her internationally followed birth last week months after her mother's collapse. The Torres family released a statement Monday saying Susan no longer requires artificial help to breath and is being fed without medical assistance. "Little Susan is doing extremely well," the statement read. "She has been removed from the ventilator and is being fed formula from an eyedropper." "She is strong and alert, and is doing better than any of us could have hoped," the family added. Doctors at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington said the prognosis is very...

Susan Torres' Husband and Parents Reveal Strange Happening on Night of Susan's Tragic Collapse As told for the first time in interview with lifesitenews.com ARLINGTON, VA, August 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The story of the heroic struggle to preserve the life of the unborn child of life-support patient Susan Torres and her husband Jason, and the miraculous birth of their baby girl, Susan Anne Catherine Torres, has unexpectedly received worldwide publicity. Thousands of news sources picked up on the fight for the life of baby Susan and broadcast the evolving miracle to hundreds of millions of readers and viewers across...

Susan Torres' Husband and Parents Reveal Strange Happening on Night of Susan's Tragic Collapse As told for the first time in interview with lifesitenews.com ARLINGTON, VA, August 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The story of the heroic struggle to preserve the life of the unborn child of life-support patient Susan Torres and her husband Jason, and the miraculous birth of their baby girl, Susan Anne Catherine Torres, has unexpectedly received worldwide publicity. Thousands of news sources picked up on the fight for the life of baby Susan and broadcast the evolving miracle to hundreds of millions of readers and viewers across...

Susan Torres, who lost consciousness last May due to a severe stroke, gave birth to a baby girl Susan Torres, who lost consciousness last May due to a severe stroke, gave birth to a baby girl Tuesday by Caesarean Section after being placed on life-support for three months in order to save the life of her baby. The baby, Susan Anne Catherine Torres, weighs 1 pound, 13 ounces and is 13 ½ inches long. She is being monitored in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia. In a letter to the Associated Press by...

"I'm going to tell her, her mother was one of the toughest women I've ever met, that she was absolutely determined in what she did.," Justin Torres told reporters Wednesday, just after his brain-dead and cancer ravaged sister-in-law had given birth to a little girl of less than two pounds -- Susan Anne Catherine Torres. Shortly after the birth of his second child, Jason Torres, Justin's brother, had to say farewell to his 26-year-old wife, who had been kept alive long enough for their baby to reach a stage where she could be delivered and survive. Once that happened, and...

Arlington, Va., Aug. 03, 2005 (CNA) - Susan Torres, a brain-dead woman who was kept alive for almost three months to give her unborn baby time to develop has given birth to a girl two months premature. The baby is being monitored at the neo-natal intensive care unit at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. Torres, a devout Catholic, suffered a stroke on 7 May after an undiagnosed cancer spread to her brain. Doctors said she was brain dead but they offered to keep her alive for the sake of the baby. She was four months pregnant with her second child....

Brain-Dead Woman Dies After Giving Birth By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer ARLINGTON, Va. - A brain dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support Wednesday and died, her family said. Susan Torres' plight attracted worldwide sympathy after she suffered a stroke in May as she battled cancer. She gave birth to a daughter, Susan Anne Catherine Torres, on Tuesday by Caesarean section. "This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family," Justin Torres, her brother-in-law, said in a statement. With the consent of her...

RICHMOND, Virgina (AP) -- A brain-dead pregnant woman on life support has reached the milestone in her pregnancy where doctors believe the baby could realistically survive outside the womb, giving her family renewed hope about the devastating ordeal. Susan Torres, 26, lost consciousness from a stroke May 7 after aggressive melanoma spread to her brain. Her husband, Jason Torres, said doctors told him his wife's brain functions had stopped. Her fetus recently passed the 24th week of development -- the earliest point at which doctors felt the baby would have a reasonable chance to survive, her brother-in-law said. "The situation...

Baby Torres Still Kicking, Donations Pour in -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Angela E. Pometto Herald Staff Writer (From the issue of 6/23/05) It has been nearly eight weeks since Susan Torres (pictured at right with her oldest son) was rushed to the hospital after she suffered a stroke caused by melanoma cancer. For eight weeks, despite her brain damage, she has been closely monitored and kept alive for the sake of her unborn baby. And after eight weeks, baby Torres is alive and kicking — quite literally. According to Mercy Schlapp, a friend of the Torres family, Jason Torres felt his child...