In a vegetative state for years, she gave birth. Now families wonder if there are other victims.

A near-drowning had left the woman in a persistent vegetative state for nearly a decade.

Her universe consisted mostly of a room at a Phoenix Hacienda HealthCare facility where she received round-the-clock care. So when she went into labor a few days after Christmas, her caretakers were flummoxed.

“From what I’ve been told, she was moaning,” an unidentified source told Phoenix CBS affiliate KPHO. “And they didn’t know what was wrong with her. … None of the staff were aware that she was pregnant until she was pretty much giving birth.”

There was a highly publicized case like this in Lubbock in 1991. Suspicion centered on the staff but it turned out to be the victim’s brother in law.
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