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Report: ‘Baby Jessica’ weds at 19
As an infant, she was rescued from abandoned well
 Elg / AP file A rescue worker carries 18-month-old Jessica McClure in this Oct. 16, 1987 file photo, shortly after she was rescued from an abandoned water well in Midland,Texas. |
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MIDLAND, Texas - “Baby Jessica,” whose dramatic rescue from an abandoned Texas well was televised across the country 18 years ago, got married in a private ceremony, People magazine reported on its Web site.
Crews struggled for 58 hours to rescue Jessica McClure after she fell into an 8-inch-wide pipe in October 1987.
The celebrity magazine reported that McClure, now 19, married Daniel Morales, 32, at a rural church outside Midland on Saturday. A sign on the door instructed guests not to take pictures or video, the magazine said.
The two met at a day-care center where Morales’ sister worked with McClure, according to the magazine.
The case of 18-month-old Jessica created a nationwide sensation. Emergency crews rescued her — a dramatic moment covered on live television — after digging a parallel shaft and then breaking through the wall of the well.
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