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| In Death, Girl, 2, is Caught |
| In Death, Girl, 2, is Caught in Fight Over Organs
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 17-November-2014
8:7:9 AM |
| For more than two days, the 2-year-old girl has remained in a Brooklyn hospital bed, technically dead but hooked up to machines keeping her organs alive for other children.
Thaiya Spruill-Smith, who loved broccoli, Minnie Mouse and the movie "Space Jam," was declared dead on Friday evening at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center. When her death certificate is issued, it will say she died on Friday, two days after officials say her stepfather shook her violently.
But Thaiya's actual death has been postponed, held up by a tug of war between her mother and her father. Her father, Terrell Smith, said cutting up his daughter would be desecration. Her mother, Teoka Spruill, wants her daughter's organs to help others.
"I just think it would be a blessing for someone else's family," Spruill said in an interview Sunday.
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Even in death, Thaiya finds herself caught in a family struggle. Spruill and her family fault Smith for threats that have left them fearful of going to the hospital without a police escort
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