{"id":316345,"date":"2024-07-30T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=316345"},"modified":"2024-08-05T19:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:11:42","slug":"margo-parents-starving-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/margo-parents-starving-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary restraining order prevents parents from starving adult daughter to death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A severely disabled woman was set to be killed through dehydration and starvation, until a temporary restraining order (TRO) prevented her parents from going through with the horrific plan.<\/p>\n

In June 2020, Margaret “Margo” Naranjo was seriously injured<\/a> in a multi-vehicle car crash when another vehicle ran a red light and slammed into her car. She was planning<\/a> her wedding for that December. The driver pled<\/a> guity to aggravated assault with serious bodily injury. Margo was left with brain damage, and her family spent years praying for her recovery<\/a>. Initially, doctors recommended comfort care only for Margo, saying there was nothing that could be done to save her.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle did I realize that was a euphemism for let your daughter die and let\u2019s make it as peaceful as possible,\u201d her father, Mike, said in an interview with KETK. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason why she\u2019s alive today. On the first night, they did the surgery, they had to leave the abdomen open because there was so much damage. They couldn\u2019t close it.”<\/p>\n

For the past several years, Mike and Cathy Naranjo have devoted themselves to caring for Margo, and praying for her recovery. Years worth of social media posts<\/a> indicate that they were dedicated to her, and from the beginning, said Margo had indicated prior to the accident that she didn’t want to be kept alive by machines. Letting her die was a decision they thought they would have to make in the beginning, when Margo was left in a coma; as Mike wrote on Facebook:<\/p>\n

So here I am, for about 30 plus days that she was in the coma, with the feeding tube, and on a breathing machine, begging God that I would not have to make that decision. This was the scripture that I prayed over every day. “Father, if possible let this cup pass before me!” Honestly I struggled with the let Your will be done because if it was His will to take her back, I was not ready to align with that.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eventually, Margo recovered from the coma, and was able to breathe on her own, as well as swallow small bites of food and take small sips of liquids. It’s not clear what made the Naranjos shift in their decision to kill Margo, but a horrifying livestream<\/a> was posted earlier this month (now deleted), in which Cathy sat next to her daughter and said they were going to allow her to die.<\/p>\n