Tornado baby mystery: Girl found alive 10 MILES from home

Mar 4, 2012 - 00:01
Mar 4, 2012 - 00:19
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Tornado baby mystery: Girl found alive 10 MILES from home
Angel Babcock

A little girl found lying in a field, surrounded by the bodies of her family, miraculously survived, while her mother, baby sister and older brother perished when a deadly toado struck.

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed child, named by family friends as 20-month-old Angel Babcock, was found by rescuers forty miles west of Chelsea, in Salem, Indiana, and was taken to hospital where she is in critical condition.

Rondale Brishaber, the Washington County coroner, identified the girl’s family as Joesph Babcock, 21, Moriah Brough, 20, Jayden Babcock, two, and Kendall Babcock, two months - who were all killed in the storm.

Angel Babcock Baby Kendall Babcock

Survivor: Friends have named the two-year-old found alive in a field ten miles from her home as Angel Babcock, left. Her sister Kendall, right, did not survive

Jaydon Babcock Joesph Babcock and Moriah Brough

Loss: The toado also claimed the lives of Angel's older brother Jayden, left, and her parents Joseph Babcock and Moriah Brough, pictured right

Angel was found near the bodies of her mother and siblings, Washington County Sheriff Claude Combs told ABC News. The body of the male was also found nearby.

'I don’t even want to believe it,' family friend Justin Henley told ABC News 7. '[Joseph] loved everybody. He never talked bad about anybody. He’s just a good person and he loved his kids a lot.'

'Kendall was a month-and-a-half old. And she was found in her car seat upside down. Jayden was two-years-old and he was found under the rubble,” added Justin's mother Sherry Young.

'Joseph was found on the opposite side of the road from his house. Moriah was found undeeath a tree. Angel was found out in the middle of the field all alone. She’s 20-months-old.'

Hospital spokeswoman Melissa Richardson says the child’s family is from New Pekin, Indiana about 10 miles south of where they were found.

Cis Gruebbel, a spokeswoman for Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, where the child was taken, said she remains in critical condition.

 

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Mike Gallagher Freelance writer with a passion for travelling