Disabilities afflict shooting survivors
One of the five Amish girls who survived last month’s schoolhouse massacre is fully disabled from a severe head wound and unlikely to recover, and the other four probably have permanent disabilities, a physician said.
“They’re kids who are pretty damaged and will have long-term consequences for these wounds,” said Dr. D. Holmes Morton, a pediatrician and director of the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg.
The survivors were among 10 schoolgirls who were taken hostage by milk truck driver Charles Carl Roberts IV on Oct. 2 and shot. The other five girls were killed in the attack, and the 32-year-old gunman committed suicide.
The most seriously injured girl is being tended to by her family at home and is “not expected to recover much function, if any,” Morton said.
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