In Memoria Susan Anne Catherine Torres: Aug 2, 2005 - Sept. 11, 2005

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With great sadness, we are asking for your prayers for the repose of the soul of 5 week old baby Susan Ann Torres. She passed away last night after surgery for a perforated intestine. Please include in your prayers a request for the peace and comfort of her family, especially Jason Torres, who has had a very difficult past several months.

http://www.susantorresfund.org

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Baby Born to Brain-Dead Va. Woman Dies

Monday September 12, 2005 5:31 PM

By MATTHEW BARAKAT

Associated Press Writer

McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Susan Anne Catherine Torres, who was born Aug. 2 to a severely brain-damaged woman who carried the pregnancy for three months while kept on life support, died Sunday night in Washington, her family said in an email Monday.

The Torres family said in a statement that Susan died of heart failure after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine. A spokeswoman at St. Rita's Church in Alexandria said parishioners were told of the child's death during the morning Mass.

The infant's condition had deteriorated rapidly over the weekend, according to the family.

The girl was born Aug. 2, two months premature after a harrowing pregnancy in which the mother, Susan Rollin Torres, was kept on life support for more than three months after a dormant melanoma spread to her brain and left her unconscious since May. The mother died shortly after her daughter's birth when she was taken off life support.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5272535,00.html

[shrike]

1. sad, sad, SAD ending

My heart breaks for her family.

[pelagius]

2. Receive your child, oh Lord, into your loving arms...

...and cradle her there with her mother and all your saints in glory. Amen.