A 16-year-old girl is reportedly fighting for her life after she was violently slammed into the concrete pavement following a fight that left her on the ground convulsing outside a Missouri high school last week.
“We are beyond devastated for her. Senseless act of violence,” lamented Terry Nordstrom Thompson, the young victim’s grandmother, calling the attack “unforgivable” in a post on Facebook, the “New York Post” reported Thursday.
Young Kaylee Gain has reportedly been in critical condition for a week already, after having been violently beaten by a 15-year-old classmate, who allegedly smashed her head to the ground several times on the concrete pavement in front of Hazelwood High School Is March 8.
According to images filmed by a witness, we can see the teenager being pushed to the ground in front of other young people who encourage the fight, before other fights break out when someone allegedly tried to separate the two teenagers.
The girl was left on the ground with a fractured skull, damage to her frontal lobe, and a major brain hemorrhage, a family member reported in a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign, which had reached US$281,200 as of Friday. .
“She was left alone on the ground convulsing before paramedics arrived. Kaylee is fighting hard to stay alive and heal, but this is only the beginning of a very difficult battle (…) We will not know the extent of the brain damage that occurred until she wakes up,” we can read .
Despite the young attacker’s age, American lawmakers demanded that she be treated as an adult in the eyes of the law given the violence of the gesture and that she be “held accountable to the fullest extent of the law”, reportedly said Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe, according to the “NY Post”.
“The criminal should be charged and tried as an adult. If the victim dies, this offense should constitute homicide,” Attorney General Andrew Bailey reportedly wrote on X.
