Mich. police: Boy, 8, spent 10 days with dead mom

[rsmith6621]

ROMULUS, Mich. – An 8-year-old boy lived for more than a week with the body of his dead mother before telling a concerned shopkeeper his mom was "in a better place," police said. Gaynell Tipado, 41, apparently died Jan. 9 in their apartment in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, and the boy survived in part by eating dried rice, butter and flour, authorities said.

The family moved to Michigan from Louisiana after surviving Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Foul play was not suspected in Tipado's death, and an autopsy was pending.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090121/ap_on_re_us/boy_dead_mother

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This tragedy continues on.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. That poor baby! *crying*

[Dennis Donovan]

2. How awful! First Katrina and then this tragedy...

:(