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Posted at 1:50 p.m., Monday, December 12, 2005

Mother taken off life support after baby delivered

By Mike Gordon
Advertiser Staff Writer

Doctors this morning successfully delivered the baby of a Big Island woman left brain-dead after suffering a beating, a spokeswoman for The Queen's Medical Center said.

Josiah Darcy Fay was delivered by Caesarean section at 11:50 a.m., said Kara Hughes, a spokeswoman for Queen's. Josiah weighed 3 pounds, 5 ounces and was 16.5 inches long, Hughes said.

The baby was pronounced healthy but he will be transferred to Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children and remain there for about three weeks. Family members plan to raise the child.

Josiah's mother, Sarah Fay, who had been kept on life support after her Nov. 25 beating, died after the birth. She was 34.

Fay's former boyfriend, Marwann Jackson, has been charged with second-degree murder, second-degree murder by omission, kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault, second-degree robbery and violation of an order for protection.

Three of Fay's organs — her kidneys and her liver — were harvested for transplant surgeries in three different people, Hughes said.

Fay will be cremated and her ashes returned to Oregon with family members.

Reach Mike Gordon at mgordon@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8012.