An 11-year-old girl is still fighting for her life almost a week after Christmas Parade killer Darrell Brooks plowed his SUV into spectators in Waukesha.
Jessalyn Torres suffered a fractured skull, broken femur and pelvis, lacerations to her lungs, and lost a kidney after the 39-year-old culprit drove his vehicle through the holiday parade, killing six people and injuring 60.
The young girl is one of the nine children injured in the tragic incident. She heartbreakingly told medics to “glue her back together” after being taken to the hospital.
Speaking to the New York Post, Torres’s mother Amber Kohnke said that her daughter is still fighting for her life at the Children’s Wisconsin Hospital where she spent the Thanksgiving holiday next to her daughter.
The mother of four said: “No mother should ever go through this. This is a very traumatic ordeal. The hardest part was not being with everyone and Jessalyn, in the condition she is, was not able to be with her family either.”
She shared how she watched her daughter struggle to breathe on Facebook.
“I hate watching my daughter go through this,” she wrote in one post.
Kohnke said her daughter was dancing with the Waukesha Xtreme Dance group when Brooks suddenly drove through the crowd of spectators.
In another Facebook post, Kohnke wrote: “Let me say this again… she is a fighter!
“I sat here and held her hand, kissed her head and just watched and cried and told her I was so proud of her.”
She has raised more than $100,000 in a fundraiser online to help cover Jessalyn’s medical expenses.
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