Shiloh Pepin, Mermaid Girl, Dies at 10

Shiloh Pepin, known as Mermaid girl because her legs were fused together from the waist down, has died. Pepin died Friday at Maine Medical Center after a bad cold turned in to pneumonia. She was 10.

Shiloh was born with a condition called mermaid syndrome, or sirenomelia. The condition is where a child is born with their legs fused together, giving them the look of a mermaid.

Most children born with the condition have surgery to separate their legs. Shiloh, whose story was recently featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, was unable to have the surgery due to blood vessels crossing from side to side. Shiloh only had one partially working kidney and no lower colon or genital organs.

Shiloh’s mother, Leslie Pepin, rushed her to Maine Medical Center on October 10 with a cold that progressed rapidly in to pneumonia. Shiloh was placed on antibiotics and a ventilator, but her organs failed. She died October 23.

No other details were available. See pictures of Shiloh in the picture gallery below.

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