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A 3-year-old Brazilian girl was killed by a scorpion that crawled into her bed while she was sleeping, local media outlet Primeira Página reported (h/t the New York Post.)
Maria Fernanda Brito de Silva, of Ribas do Rio Pardo, suffered cardiac arrest in relation to the incident, which took place on September 25. The child was treated with antivenom antibody therapy at the Hospital Regional de Mato Grosso do Sul intensive care unit in Campo Grande before being pronounced dead on October 1.
“It is with immeasurable sadness and regret that the City of Ribas do Rio Pardo, through the Municipal Health Department (Sesau), announces that the child Maria Fernanda Brito da Silva died this Sunday morning,” Ribas do Rio Pardo city officials said in a statement shared upon news of her death last week via the New York Post.
The child's mother, Vanessa Ramirez de Silva, said she's in "infinite pain" following her daughter's death and described the heartbreaking attack in a translated statement to Primeira Pagina.
“The image will stay in my head forever. She sat on the bed, turned around, and I saw the scorpion stuck to her back," Ramirez de Silva said. “I hit her and she, even though she was in pain, raised her little finger and showed that the scorpion ended up on my shirt. I hit my hand, threw it on the ground, and killed it.”