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BORN AT 6AM ON 06/06/06, HIS MUM WAS INDUCED FOR 6 DAYS, HE WEIGHS 6LBS 6OZ AND HE’S CALLED… DAMIEN

Horror film fan Suzanne Cooper yesterday named her baby Damien after the devil child in the The Omen, who was also born on June 6.

Suzanne went one better than the movie by hitting the full Number of the Beast with the date - 6/6/06.

Special needs teacher Suzanne, 36, was also induced for six days before Damien arrived at 6.59am, tipping the scales at a spine-chilling 6lb 6oz.

She said: “We are overjoyed about the baby. The Omen is one of our favourite films and that’s why I was keeping my legs crossed for a birth on the 6th.

“It does seem a bit weird I suppose, but he’s a perfect baby - nothing at all like Damien in The Omen.”

Well, if he was the Son of the Devil, you probably wouldn’t know it yet, now would you??

In all seriousness, am I the only one who thinks this woman is taking a fairly substantial risk here? I’m not talking about the risk that her son is Satan’s spawn; I’m talking about the risk that some crazy religious nutcase will see this story in the media, will think her son is Satan’s spawn, and will try to harm the kid. Granted, that’s probably fairly unlikely to happen, but it’s a non-negligible risk, and an utterly unnecessary one, don’t you think? And besides, even if nobody tries to hurt him, poor Damien Cooper is probably in for a pretty rough childhood, what with all the teasing he’ll get once his classmates figure this out — which they presumably will, since his mother apparently sought out the media to report on this!! She seems to be treating the birth of her child as a vanity project, and I wonder if she’s thought through the possible consequences for the kid — who has no choice in any of this, whereas she deliberately chose to do things this way.

P.S. Speaking of The Omen, the remake set a box-office record for a Tuesday with $12.6 million.