http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/30/mermaid.baby.ap/index.html

harkens back to that kids in the hall movie "how many flipper babies!?!"

They should leave the legs stuck together. I imagine Peru is not too strong in Olympic swimming. This could be their great white hope for the 200m butterfly.

poor little girl

a rare congenital defect known as sirenomelia, or "mermaid syndrome," which occurs in one out of every 70,000 births.
There are only three known cases of children with the affliction alive in the world today, the child's physician, Dr. Luis Rubio, said in the statement.

Milagros has a deformed left kidney and a very small right one located very low in her body. In addition, her digestive and urinary tracts and her genitals share a single tube.

Rubio said Milagros would need up to 15 years of corrective surgeries to reconstruct and repair her sexual, digestive and other internal organs.

how come this only happens to kids in south and central america?

Because their water is icky.

1 out of every 70,000 is kind of alot...that means there are about 85,000 mermaids in the world..why no real mermaid porn??