After playing my original game all this time (since VS came out), I can now (sadly) say that there are exceptions.

Last night, I turned on VS to check my quiet little village before going to bed, and my little Teata (Golden Child) was dead. The monkey had attacked the only child there was currently, and that was my GC. Now my little village is too quiet.

An interesting side note here, and possibly why it killed her rather than just weaken her... Her health meter was steadily (but very very slowly) declining over time anyway, and was at the halfway mark when she was attacked.