The ‘Mermaid Girl’ Shiloh Pepin dies after fighting well for 10 long years. Shiloh Pepin who was born with amalgamated legs, died on Friday. The doctors believed the Mermaid Girl had few days to live but Shiloh Pepin’s mother was right to call her “Tough Little Thing.” Watch Shiloh Pepin with her parents in the video.

Although very rare but there are some examples wherein children have born with a particular syndrome called the ‘mermaid syndrome’ and hereditary congenital disarray or disorder that’s described as ‘Sirenomelia.’ Our brave little Shiloh Pepin was also one of those rare children, whom the doctors never hope or expect to live beyond few hours or few days. Shiloh Pepin was exception as she not only survived but lived for as many as ten years.

Shiloh Pepin died of pneumonia on last Friday afternoon at the Maine Medical Center in Kennebunkport town, United States where she was hospitalized since last week. She was brought to the hospital in a very critical condition and despite consistent care and medication, she couldn’t make it.

The term ‘Sirenomelia’ also called ‘Mermaid Syndrome’ refers to a very rare congenital deformity and any one suffering from it is born with fused and combined legs that resembles just like a mermaid’s tail. The symptoms also include absence of sacrum, vertebral defects, absence of rectum, missing external genitalia and internal genitalia as well as a missing bladder etc.

This is why the medical experts predict an early death for such children as they foresee the future complications they would definitely encounter with. Shiloh Pepin was born without lower colon and any genital organs and almost half-operative kidney. If you watch the attached video you’ll definitely feel sorry for the girl who was living a life just like all other normal kids with eyes full of hope and life. She attended the school too and was a grade five student at Kennebunkport Consolidated School.

Now, she’s no more with us though but she’ll be long remembered by all of us.

Mermaid Girl Shiloh Pepin