Shams was being driven home after visiting her mother's family when an explosion blew up a car on the side of the road in November 2006.
The blast, threw Shams and her mother into the street and engulfed the car in flames.
Her father Husham Fadhil tried to douse out the fire covering his wife's clothing.
There was little he could do for his one-year-old daughter, lying face down beside her.
The car bomb was one of a series of rocket and mortar fire attacks in Sadr City, in which about 160 people were killed in one day.
Shams and her two brothers were rushed to one hospital and her mother was taken to another. It took her father hours to track them down.
Months later Shams' father was helped by Doctors Without Borders to take her to Jordan for treatment on her lost sight.
But doctors said because she wasn't treated at the time she was wounded, there was little they could do.
Hoping for a miracle cure Mr Fadhil took Shams to Iran, but doctors told him she needed treatment in Europe.
After his wife's death, Mr Fadhil remarried. But his new wife refused to care for Shams, and she was given to her father's relatives in eastern Baghdad.
Her grandfather Fadil Kharim has made an appeal for money to help treat her blindness.
"We are appealing to the outside world for kind assistance from wealthy people to help restore even 10% of her eyesight," he said.
Two years after the blast, Shams walks haphazardly through the house, finding her way by touching the wall.
If she bumps into someone, she clutches them and asks to be hugged or carried.
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