Important Takeaways:

• An 80-year-old Russian woman has lived her entire life with a needle measuring over an inch in length lodged in her brain, stunned doctors have revealed.
• Medics on the remote Russian island of Sakhalin in the Pacific Ocean have concluded that the needle likely was proof of her parents’ botched attempt to kill her as a newborn during World War II.
• “Such incidents were not uncommon during the years of starvation: a thin needle would be inserted into a newborn’s fontanel to damage the brain,”
• “The fontanel quickly closed up, covering up evidence of the crime, and the baby died.”
• In the case of the elderly patient, the 1.2-inch-long needle pierced her left parietal lobe, but that “did not lead to the intended effect,”
• The baby girl survived the attempted infanticide — and in the coming years and decades she had never complained of headaches due to the needle nestled in her brain

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