TV host plunges from her apartment in the Dominican Republic in a second failed suicide attempt
A television host in the Dominican Republic is in a stable condition after she tried taking her life for the second time in as many days.
Kiara Romero was found laying outside her home in the northeastern Dominican city of San Pedro de Macoris on Thursday afternoon after she jumped from her third floor apartment.
On Tuesday, the actress had posted a cryptic caption on her Instagram account in Spanish.
‘Sometimes we believe that it may be our end or the end of something, and it is only an opportunity that God gives us to show us that we still have a lot to give, that we still have the best of us,’ Romero wrote.
‘The light is there,’ she added.
A close-circuit camera from a nearby building captures the sad moment when she came crashing to the ground, landing on the left side of her body.
Noticias Sin reported that the 29-year-old suffered fractures on both of her feet and was diagnosed with trauma to her head. A relative told TV station Antena Latina that his niece also fractured both of her hands and had injured her spine.
According to police reports her husband Carlos Paulino, 29, said that Romero had also tried cutting her veins on Wednesday.
Additional surveillance footage acquired by news outlet Agenda 56 shows the couple getting out of a white truck and the moment Paulino and other residents come to Romero’s aid.
Paulino then placed his wife in the car and then drove her to a local hospital.
Listin Diario reported Friday that Romero was scheduled to undergo an operation on both of her feet at a hospital where she had been transferred to in the capital city of Santo Domingo.
The suicide attempts come almost three months after the entertainment television presenter revealed in a birthday Instagram post that she had been sexually abused as a child by her stepfather.
Paulino, a career-minor league baseball player with the Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates and Minnesota Twins, told Dominican authorities on Friday that he and his brother were in the living room of the home where the couple resides when they heard a loud thud at 1.28pm.
As he walked out of an interrogation session with the Dominican National Police, Paulino said he didn’t have any problems with his wife.
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