1-year-old released from hospital 4 months after being shot in face
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A 1-year-old girl was released from the hospital on Friday nearly 4 months after she was shot in the face.
A 1-year-girl was released from a New York hospital Friday nearly four months after she was shot in the face.
Catherine, whose mother described her as "our beautiful miracle baby," was initially hospitalized in critical condition at NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital following the Jan. 19 shooting in the Bronx.
Since February, she has been hospitalized at Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, Westchester County, for extensive rehabilitation to relearn how to walk, talk and eat. She walked out of the hospital while holding her parents' hands to cheers from hospital staff and officers from the New York Police Department and the Westchester County Police Department.
"Our journey has been long, but finally, this is the light at the end of the tunnel," her mother, Miraida Gomez, told reporters while holding Catherine outside the hospital.