Parents sign organ donation papers just before brain dead boy comes to life
Alabama, May 8: In a miraculous incident, a 13-year-old suffering from severe brain trauma due to an accident, came back to life after his parents signed organ donation papers.
The miracle boy Trenton McKinley from Mobile city in Alabama had been hospitalized two months ago after meeting with an accident. He was riding a utility trailer and it somehow flipped over.
"I hit the concrete and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don't remember anything," Trenton told Fox 10.
Jennifer Reindl, his mother told Fox 10, "All I saw was a stretcher with his feet hanging out. He was dead a total of 15 minutes. When he came back, they said he would never be normal again. They told me the oxidation problems would be so bad to his brain, that he would be a vegetable if he even made it."
His mother decided to donate his organs so it could benefit other children who were in need of transplants.
"Five kids needed organs that matched him. It was unfair to keep bringing him back, because it was just damaging his organs even more," Reindl said.
But the miracle happened just after that. Trenton started showing signs of brain activity just a day before doctors were going to pull the plug on his life support system.
In late March, he started breathing on his own and even started speaking full sentences, according to a Facebook post his mother wrote on a fundraising page.
Speaking of his brain-death experience, Trenton recalled, "I was in an open field walking straight. There's no other explanation but God. There's no other way. Even doctors said it."
Trenton still has a long recovery route. Till date, he has had three brain surgeries and will have another soon. He still suffers from nerve pain and seizures daily.
During the interaction with Fox 10, the 13-year-old tried to add some humor to the conversation. Pointing at the dent in his head, he said, "I said I could turn sideways and put salsa in there and eat chips and dip out of my head. No more washing dishes for me! She wouldn't let me put anything in it though. I really wanted to see if I could."
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Court acquits man accused of sexually harassing minor cousin
Thane (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has acquitted a 23-year-old man, accused of sexually harassing and threatening his minor female cousin, as the victim and key prosecution witnesses failed to support the police case.
The order was passed on April 27 by special judge Premal S Vithalani, hearing cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. It was made available on Thursday.
The prosecution alleged that on November 18, 2018, the accused, who is a cousin of the victim, took the then 14-year-old girl in an auto-rickshaw, made sexual advances, and threatened to circulate her photographs on social media if she refused to marry him.
During the trial, the victim and her family members turned hostile.
The court noted that while the prosecution successfully proved the victim was a minor at the time of the incident through school records and birth certificates, it failed to prove the "foundational facts" of the alleged crime.
In the judgment, the court said, "The star witnesses namely victim, her cousin brother and her grandmother have not stated anything about the incident. Therefore, it cannot be said that the prosecution has succeeded in proving its case."
Referring to the testimony of the victim, the court said, "Even the victim has not supported the prosecution's case. She has specifically denied the incident. She denied that on the date of incident, accused took her in an auto-rickshaw, sexually harassed her by moving his hand on her breast, abused her and threatened her."
The court further highlighted that the victim's grandmother, who was the original informant, admitted during cross-examination that she was illiterate and had lodged the complaint based on what she was told, later stating that the accused had not even come to her house on the day of the incident.
The accused was facing charges under sections 354-A (1) (i) (sexual harassment), 504 (intentional insult), and 506-II (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), along with relevant sections of the POCSO Act.
"In view of the discussion made above, the accused is required to be acquitted," the judge ruled.
