Outraged "General Hospital" fans lit up the show's message boards after the ABC soap killed off 4-year-old Jake Webber -- who was removed from life support on yesterday's show after being left brain-dead by a hit-and-run driver in Port Charles.It's a stunning jolt for the world of daytime drama, where romantic trysts, amnesia, kidnappings and comas are standard - but the death of a young child is extremely rare.
It's also not the first time that "GH" has gone this shocking route.
In 1994, Tony and Bobbie's daughter , BJ, was in a car accident that left her brain-dead - and her heart was transplanted into her cousin, 6-year-old Maxie.
"Hey! Isn't ABC a Disney Network? Aren't they supposed to be about 'family?' " wrote carolegenni. "Great job killing off kids and destroying families on General Hospital!"
"I am very disappointed that the Disney Corporation has financed a soap opera . . . which portrays children who are victims of violence," write ays786.
"Any hope I had of being able to watch this show again died along with Jake Spencer."
"While the tragic death of Jake Webber brings unspeakable heartache to his family and all of Port Charles, this is a story of love and redemption in the face of devastating loss," a show spokesman said yesterday.It premiered on the ABC television network on April 1, 1963. Broadcast weekdays and currently repeated nightly on SOAPnet, it is the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. General Hospital rose to the top of the ratings in the early 1980s in part thanks to the monumentally popular "supercouple"...
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