2-YO Shaken Into Coma By Stepfather Taken Off Life Support
On November - 19 - 2014
Thaiya Spruill-Smith, 2, died on Friday after ‘being violently shaken by father on Wednesday’
A brain-dead two-year-old Brooklyn girl’s organs will not be donated after a family dispute kept her on life support. A New York Organ Donor Network spokeswoman tells The New York Times that organ and tissue donation ‘can only occur when there is agreement amongst family members’. The parents of Thaiya Spruill-Smith were in disagreement over whether to donate her organs after the toddler was declared brain dead on Friday. Police say her stepfather violently shook her, resulting in injuries that proved fatal. READ MORE HERE
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