We are just happy to know that Jessica McClure has a good life with her husband Daniel Morales, 34.
Today [Oct 16] is the 20th anniversary since toddler Jessica McClure was rescued from a backyard well in Midland.
She's now a 21-year-old wife and mother.
Chip McClure says his daughter is a wonderful mother, whose dream has always been to be a stay-at-home mom.
She has a 1-year-old son, Simon.
But Jessica's quiet existence in Midland could change in 3.5 years.
That's when all the monetary tributes sent to "Baby Jessica" while the world waited for her safe rescue -- mature into a payment of $1 million or more.
The trust fund is waiting for Jessica to turn 25.
Richardo Morales, Simon's uncle, says Jessica plans to put the money into a fund for her child.
The scene happened in 1987:
Chip and Cissy McClure were poor teenagers struggling to make ends meet during the depths of the oil bust. Cissy McClure left Jessica in her sister's yard while she went to answer the phone. Moments later, Jessica happened upon an 8-inch hole and innocently touched off a global event.
When rescuers brought her to the surface 2 1/2 days later, her head was bandaged, she was covered with dirt and bruises and her right palm was immobilized to her face. The image was ingrained in millions of people's memories and won a Pulitzer Prize for Odessa American photographer Scott Shaw.
Chip and Cissy McClure were poor teenagers struggling to make ends meet during the depths of the oil bust. Cissy McClure left Jessica in her sister's yard while she went to answer the phone. Moments later, Jessica happened upon an 8-inch hole and innocently touched off a global event. But during the past two decades, not everyone involved rescuing Jessica mcClure is still well:
...About three years after the TV cameras left Midland, Chip and Cissy divorced. Each has remarried...
In 1995, paramedic and rescuer Robert O'Donnell, who wriggled into the passageway and slathered a frightened Jessica in petroleum jelly before sliding her out into the bright television lights, shot and killed himself at his parents' ranch outside Midland.
His brother, Rick, has said O'Donnell's life "fell apart" because of the stress of the rescue, the attention it created and the anticlimactic return to everyday life.
In 2004, William Andrew Glasscock Jr., a former Midland police officer who helped in the rescue, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on charges of sexual exploitation of a child and improper storage of explosives. A year later, he was sentenced to 20 years on two state charges of sexual assault.
Source: Fox via RightPundits.com