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AUSTIN — A 6-month-old girl survived for
five days near the body of her dead father before
being rescued by police, authorities said.
Asia McCoy was in critical condition at
Brackenridge Hospital on Wednesday, spokes
woman Pam Crowther said. The baby was found
Sunday on the bathroom floor near the decom
posing body of Willard McCoy, 41. The cause
of his death is being investigated but not as a
homicide, police said.
Officer Blain Eiben, who had to don a gas
mask because of the foul smell inside the home,
discovered Asia. He thought the baby, who w'as
encrusted in her father's fluids, was dead, so he
started to leave.
“Something changed my mind, and l said no,
l need to check her pulse." he said on Wednes
day. “I barely felt a pulse, and she barely kicked
a leg.”
He rushed out with Asia. Officers cleaned out
the infant’s nose and mouth, poured water on
her and rubbed her back until she started mak
ing noise. Trying to soothe her, Eiben and of
ficer Doug Drake said, “Come on baby, come on
baby, breathe please.”
“Whatever we could, trying to soothe her,
comfort her,” Eiben said. "The baby had been
through a lot, I can’t even imagine what it would
be like to lay there in that condition for five days.
We were doing everything we could to soothe
her and not to be put any more trauma on her.”
Drake said he hasn’t yet had a chance to sort
out what happened.
“There have been several moments since that
time that I stopped and thought about it," he
said. “I don’t think all the elements of that day
have come together yet.”
Eiben believes he witnessed a miracle.
“After thinking about it, I think God was in
that house that day. How could a baby survive
that? He had to be there,” said Eiben, who de
scribes himself as religious but no fanatic. “I
definitely think it’s a miracle.”
Asia was discovered when police responded
to a welfare call after neighbors hadn’t seen her
or her father for days.
“They were getting worried and calling his
cell phone, paging him, going over to the door
and he would never answer, until Saturday and
Sunday they noticed a smell and flies,” neighbor
Angela Sales said.
Child Protective Services has custody of Asia
and will place her with a foster home at least ini
tially, spokesman Aaron Reed said. The agency
has identified family members who might be ap
propriate to take care of Asia, Reed said.
Asia was in CPS custody as a newborn but
then a judge ordered that McCoy be given cus
tody of her about three months ago, Reed said.
“It was not our recommendation that the
child return home,” Reed said. Another agency
spokesman, Geoff Wool, said CPS was very
concerned about McCoy’s ability to provide for
the child.
Wool said Asia’s mother was incarcerated
when Asia was born.
CPS monitored Asia while she was in Mc
Coy’s custody.
“She was doing quite well,” Reed said.
A caseworker visited Asia once a week for
eight weeks and then once a month. The last
visit was Aug.. 14 and everything appeared to
be fine, Reed said.
“Clearly this is a tragedy but it could have
been much worse if this child had died,” Reed
later said.
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LOS ANGELES Latin
Grammy favorite Alejandro
Sanz won four awards and Bra
zilian jazz songstress Maria Rita
collected two Wednesday at a
ceremony aimed at uniting Span
ish- and Portugcse-language mu
sic with the flash and siz/le of
American pop.
Sanz won the male pop vocal
album award and album of the
year for “No Es Lo Mismo” and
took home song of the year and
record of the year
trophies for writing
and performing the
album’s title track.
The Spanish
crooner, who has
previously re
ceived seven Latin
Grammys and one
Grammy, was tour
ing and did not at
tend the evening’s
festivities.
Many household
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means to comment on his home
land’s politics. “The music is
art. My politics are private,”
the 85-year-old said backstage.
"It’s been 24 years since 1 go to
my country.”
The entertainment portion of
the show offered glitzy, often
power-packed displays of music
from a number of performers.
Spanish flamenco-singer Da
vid Bisbal kicked off the broad
cast w ith a flashy dance number,
then sang a romantic power-bal
lad duet with pop princess Jes
sica Simpson _ she in English, he
in Spanish _ while they hung in
each other’s arms and sang face
to face.
Other high
lights included
a collaboration
featuring the
hard-rock band
Incubus and the
Mexican rock/
hip-hop group
Cafe Tacuba,
which won best
alternative music
album for “Cu-
atro Caminos.”
The show featured another
joint performance of Tex-Mex
brothers Los Lonely Boys and
veteran rocker Carlos Santana,
who was named the Latin Gram
my person of the year on Mon
day. Santana and Los Lonely
Boys offered up a stirring rendi
tion of the late Ritchie Valens’
1950s Spanish rock ‘n’ roll an
them “La Bamba.”
Among other winners, Jim
my Gonzalez and Grupo Mazz
won best Tejano album for
“Live En El Valle,” while Los
Tigres Del Norte collected the
Norteno album prize for “Facto
De Sangre.”
Meanwhile, Skank’s “Cos-
motron” was picked best Brazil
ian rock album, classical cellist
Yo-Yo Ma’s “Obrigado Brazil:
Live in Concert” collected best
instrumental album, and the late
Celia Cruz’s “Regalo Del Alma”
received best salsa album.
The music is
art. My politics
are private."
— Cuban Pianist
Bebo Valdes, after winning
four Grammys
sic video for “Mas y Mas," while
Rosario’s “Del Mel Colores
was honored as best female vocal
album. Vincento and Alejandro
Fernandez earned best Ranchero
album for “En Vivos Juntos For
Ultima Vez.”
Comedian George Lopez, star
of the ABC sitcom “The George
Lopez Show,” was host of the
fifth annual awards ceremony at
the Shrine Auditorium and first
appeared on-stage riding a white
horse while wearing a Mariachi
band outfit and sombrero.
CBS bleeped one of his jokes
when Lopez said he understood
that President George W. Bush
speaks some Spanish. He then
uttered some of the language
in a phrase that, politely trans
lated, means: “Don’t lie to
me.” In English, he joked that
it meant: “Good luck in your
future endeavors.”
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the multiple nominees as Rita
and Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes
totaled four bids each. Rita won
best new artist and best Musica
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“Maria Rita,” which was also
nominated for album of the year.
“When I was little I used to
watch the Grammys with the
family and we all knew how im
portant it was to all the artists in
volved. I’m one of you now,” she
told the audience after winning
her second honor.
Songwriter Milton Nascimen-
to won the best Brazilian song
award for writing her song “A
Festa,” which had been nomi
nated for record of the year.
Valdes won for his collabora
tion with flamenco singer Diego
El Cigala in the traditional trop
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The Cuban exile Valdes said
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