'Baby Jessica,' Now 19, Reportedly Marries


'Baby Jessica,' Dramatically Rescued From Texas Well in 1987, Reportedly Marries at 19

MIDLAND, Texas Jan 29, 2006 — "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.

Remember thelittle baby Jessica who fell down the well in Texas. She's now 19 and she just got married, Go to yahoonews. look in the news section for more info.

to some 32 year old.

http://www.wyff4.com/news/6585401/detail.html

How nice.

Hopefully their children will never be allowed to play outside.

;)

I am baffled that people still get married so young these days. I am 26 and I still am not ready to settle down and decide to spend the rest of my life with somebody. When I was 19, the last thing on my mind was to wind up with somebody.

I guess she decided to marry very young too, just like her own parents Cissy and Chip who married and had Jessica when they were only teenagers. Cissy and Chip divorced shortly after the incident. Let's see how long Jessica's marriage will last.

I guess in small towns such as Midland, people do tend to marry younger.

wow, 19 that is young. Stella is probably right about that though.

Interesting indeed.

Hmmmm....

I recall just a year ago I was curious as to her whereabouts, so I did some research and found very little news back then. I remember one article said there were no current pictures on her online. I was curious as to what she looks like nowadays, but anyway....

About the marriage/age thing, it seems she has inherited it that from her parents. They were actually teenage parents who later got divorced. Let's hope Jessica's marriage will last....

Interesting indeed.

Hmmmm....

I recall just a year ago I was curious as to her whereabouts, so I did some research and found very little news back then. I remember one article said there were no current pictures on her online. I was curious as to what she looks like nowadays, but anyway....

About the marriage/age thing, it seems she has inherited it that from her parents. They were actually teenage parents who later got divorced. Let's hope Jessica's marriage will last.... I just found this web page on Jessica this
I don't know if this will work,but here's a link to it. baby Jessica Resue web page..

I just found this web page on Jessica this
I don't know if this will work,but here's a link to it. baby Jessica Resue web page..
Ooops. I realized my wording was wrong. I mean to say there were no current pictures of Jessica of how she looks like nowadays. Thanks for that image, too!

How about this picture of her 2004 high school graduation:

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/news/060206a/jmcclure.jpg

Another picture of her at 16:

http://www.caver.net/j/jes1.jpg

Didn't Jessica go wild a few years ago?

Wow! Thanks, Stella! Where did you find these pictures, by the way? Very interesting there really are some media images out there. Do you have the article that goes with the second picture? It looks like it came from a magazine.

I noticed her feet aren't showing. She had a toe amputated because of the well accident.

she's weird looking. :| maybe she should have stayed in the well.

just kidding.

i remember reading about her in a book called "OMFG!" only not. it was called trapped! and it had all these stories about stuff like that.

I am 26 and I still am not ready to settle down and decide to spend the rest of my life with somebody.

I agree.

she was stuck in the well the day that i was born....IM COOL!

Wow! Thanks, Stella! Where did you find these pictures, by the way? Very interesting there really are some media images out there. Do you have the article that goes with the second picture? It looks like it came from a magazine.
I found the pictures simply by searching the internet. Here is an extensive web page about her rescue:

http://www.caver.net/j/jrescue.html

That second picture is from this article linked to the page above:
http://www.caver.net/j/arch/lhj.html

About the marriage/age thing, it seems she has inherited it that from her parents. They were actually teenage parents who later got divorced. Let's hope Jessica's marriage will last....
In a thread that I created in the Movies forum about divorce, I stated that I give kudos to whomever never divorces. Call me old-fashioned, but I consider divorce to be rather bad and shameful. One correlation that I've noticed is that those who marry young are more likely to divorce, and Jessica's parents were no exception. Let's wait and see if Jessica is an exception.

In a thread that I created in the Movies forum about divorce, I stated that I give kudos to whomever never divorces. Call me old-fashioned, but I consider divorce to be rather bad and shameful. One correlation that I've noticed is that those who marry young are more likely to divorce, and Jessica's parents were no exception. Let's wait and see if Jessica is an exception.

well, personally I don't think it's right to get on a moral high horse and judge those who have been divorced. If a person gets a divorce, it doesn't make him or her a bad person

one of my best friends' first husband (that she married at 19, she's in her 30's now) assaulted her and threatened to kill her, so she took her daughter and left and got a restraining order and filed for divorce, this was many years ago and she's been married and widowed since. I don't see why she is a bad person for leaving the SOB and why suddenly she's "immoral garbage" because she's divorced him instead of staying with him and possibly would be dead at this point?

In a thread that I created in the Movies forum about divorce, I stated that I give kudos to whomever never divorces. Call me old-fashioned, but I consider divorce to be rather bad and shameful. One correlation that I've noticed is that those who marry young are more likely to divorce, and Jessica's parents were no exception. Let's wait and see if Jessica is an exception.


That's a prejudiced comment. Ok, I rather be bad and ashamed of myself instead of 8ft below the ground.

one of my best friends' first husband (that she married at 19, she's in her 30's now) assaulted her and threatened to kill her, so she took her daughter and left and got a restraining order and filed for divorce, this was many years ago and she's been married and widowed since. I don't see why she is a bad person for leaving the SOB and why suddenly she's "immoral garbage" because she's divorced him instead of staying with him and possibly would be dead at this point?
In this case, divorce is better than being killed. But nevertheless, it is still shameful because she showed EXTREME STUPIDITY to have married that SOB in the first place. Any other woman with even half a brain would have never been attracted to such an abusive SOB in the first place. Perhaps with many young women who are abused, she was dumb enough to rush into marriage without knowing her man well enough.

In this case, divorce is better than being killed. But nevertheless, it is still shameful because she showed EXTREME STUPIDITY to have married that SOB in the first place. Any other woman with even half a brain would have never been attracted to such an abusive SOB in the first place. Perhaps with many young women who are abused, she was dumb enough to rush into marriage without knowing her man well enough.

lmao I find it funny that you assume to know anything about me or my situation. Yes, I rushed into a marriage with a man I didn't know. If you consider a 14 year friendship with him first not knowing him. As for having half a brain, my brain is quite intact and fully functional. In fact I am a pretty intelligent person. I married a man that was very kind and considerate and very loving. That was the problem. He was too loving. He became obsessed with me and was so afraid of losing me that he would have killed me to try and keep me. Until me, he had never abused another person in his life. Nor has he after. Now if you have some kind of psychic ability to know how a person is going to change in the future, I'm sure you could make a fortune at the next fair that passes through town. But since you don't, you might want to get off that inadequate soap box you're jumping on and learn some real facts about life.

Women don't choose to marry abusive men. Abusive men are charming men that know how to hide the evil inside of them. They know how to wear away a woman's self esteem to the point that she starts to believe his degradation. She also knows that leaving an abusive husband is the most dangerous thing she can do. Unless you have actually been in an abusive marriage or divorced, you have no rights to make any judgments on a person's situation. You have your right to have an opinion, but making a judgement on something you know nothing about shows just who has half a brain.

Well, I'm not divorced, and neither has my mother, my sisters, my grandmothers, my aunts, and my best woman friends. We are all smart enough to avoid that kind of charming abusive men that you describe.

Well, I'm not divorced, and neither has my mother, my sisters, my grandmothers, my aunts, and my best woman friends. We are all smart enough to avoid that kind of charming abusive men that you describe.

Want a cookie? Divorce isn't a disease that's hereditary. As for being smart enough to avoid abusive men, are you sure that's the truth and that it's just not the fact that men in general tend to avoid you? I don't find it surprising that you've never been divorced. You have to get married for that to happen. And with your condescending and holier than thou attitude, I would find it surprising that you could keep a man long enough to marry him.

I'm engaged to my boyfriend of eight years. I know for sure he is not the kind of man that many women make the mistake of marrying. All my family members evaluated him. He comes from a great family and there is not a single divorce among anyone in his large extended family either. ;)

I'm engaged to my boyfriend of eight years. I know for sure he is not the kind of man that many women make the mistake of marrying. All my family members evaluated him. He comes from a great family and there is not a single divorce among anyone in his large extended family either. ;)

lol I'm glad you think that's all it takes to know how a person will change in the future. I truly hope your marriage works out for you. But, keep in mind that just because there are no divorces in a family doesn't mean that all the marriages are happy ones. Some women are just brave enough to leave a miserable situation while others don't have enough self esteem or courage to get the hell out. And unless you're sleeping in the same bed with that person, you're just seeing what they want you to see, which isn't always the truth. Sometimes, people see only what the want to see.

Am I the only one that suddenly feels old hearing this?

Sheesh....PEOPLE CHANGE. Someone who abuses their spouse may have very well been a saint early on. Things happen, people change and sometimes it's not for the better.

And here I thought this was basically obvious.


Re: Seth....YES, I do feel old. :lol:

Sheesh....PEOPLE CHANGE. Someone who abuses their spouse may have very well been a saint early on. Things happen, people change and sometimes it's not for the better.

That's exactly right. My parents are divorced. My dad was on his best behavior the whole time they were dating. How was my mom to know that after they were married he would turn into a jerk? My mom wasn't stupid for marrying him. Naive yes but not stupid.

In this case, divorce is better than being killed. But nevertheless, it is still shameful because she showed EXTREME STUPIDITY to have married that SOB in the first place. Any other woman with even half a brain would have never been attracted to such an abusive SOB in the first place. Perhaps with many young women who are abused, she was dumb enough to rush into marriage without knowing her man well enough.

Most of this people don't show their true colors until after you have married them..I don't think you never get to know the 'real' physique of this individuals. It's really inconsiderate of you to judge women that have chosen to divorce instead of sitting there and taking the abuse. No one asks to be abused.

Most of this people don't show their true colors until after you have married them..I don't think you never get to know the 'real' physique of this individuals. It's really inconsiderate of you to judge women that have chosen to divorce instead of sitting there and taking the abuse. No one asks to be abused.
Or how about if you find out one day that your husband has been hiding a secret life as a serial killer or pedophile......is it still not OK to divorce him then? Those scenerios seem to be becoming less isolated.

You can check out her wedding registry at:

http://www.walmart.com/giftregistry/gr_detail.do?registryId=36453485002

Or how about if you find out one day that your husband has been hiding a secret life as a serial killer or pedophile......is it still not OK to divorce him then? Those scenerios seem to be becoming less isolated.


Very good point! Before I got married, I went to the Courthouse to get his 'background' info; it turns out that since he hadn't been living in this county it came back clean but had records from different ones.

Most of this people don't show their true colors until after you have married them..I don't think you never get to know the 'real' physique of this individuals. It's really inconsiderate of you to judge women that have chosen to divorce instead of sitting there and taking the abuse. No one asks to be abused.
I have to agree with this.

You could have a very happy marriage, everything goes well etc. after 20+ years of marriage but a life-impacting event could change it all. I have heard of people divorcing because of their job causing one person to move and the other person doesn't want to move. It does not have to be because of abusive marriages. It happens for a variety of reasons. Sometimes things just don't work out and divorce is the last resort.

Wow.... I just lightly mentioned how Jessica's parents were teenage parents who ended up divorced. I did not know this was going to end up in a two-page discussion over divorce. :eek:

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