Jessica McClure Morales (born March 26, 1986) became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a well in the backyard of Tanner Drive, Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987. Between that day and October 16, rescuers worked for 58 hours to free "Baby Jessica" from the eight-inch (20 cm) well casing 22 feet (6.7 m) below the ground. The story gained worldwide attention (leading to some criticism as a media circus), and later became the subject of a 1989 television movie Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure on ABC. As presented in the movie, a vital part of the rescue was the use of the then relatively new technology of waterjet cutting.
My scars remind me that I'm a survivor and God loves me.
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I don't have any memory of it at all. Everybody asks me that question. I answer 'I don't know.' I saw footage of me on Rescue 911 and it broke my heart to think that happened to a little girl and someone told me, 'Honey, that's you.' It made me cry.
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She graduated from Greenwood High School in 2004.
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While she was trapped in the well, a microphone was lowered down to where she landed so that her parents could hear her. During the incident, she lost a toe due to gangrene.
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While trapped in the well, her parents lowered a plush Winnie the Pooh that amused her. They and others awaited her successful rescue.
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She is a mother of two children, a son, Simon (b. 2006) and a daughter, Cheyenne (b. 2009).
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