Current Events > MO teen jumped and beaten into coma. Now talking, but unable to walk

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https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/us-news/missouri-teen-kaylee-gain-out-of-coma-begins-speech-therapy-after-beatdown/

The Missouri teen who slipped into a coma after her head was mercilessly bashed into the pavement in a twisted after-school brawl has slowly begun the road to recovery but has no recollection of the beating.
Kaylee Gain, 16, has been able to engage in limited verbal conversations in the week since she was moved out of the intensive care unit, her family announced Friday.
Kaylee also recently began speech therapy, and has gone on a few short walks with the assistance of hospital staff as she is still unable to ambulate on her own, attorney Bryan Kaemmerer, a spokesperson for Gains, said in a statement.
However, Kaylee does not have any recollection of the altercation that led to her hospitalization.
The small steps mark significant strides for the teenager, whose family initially thought she would never recover from the fight that led to brain bleeding and a skull fracture.
Chilling footage of the March 8 attack showed an unidentified girl pin Gains down before repeatedly striking her head on the concrete just blocks from Hazelwood East High School in Spanish Lake.
The 15-year-old bully was taken into custody and charged with assault.
The Gains family on Friday also accused the perpetrator of sharing a series of social media posts boasting about the violent attack including jokes that the beatdown would qualify her to join MMA or WWE.
The alleged posts have since been taken down, they said.
Given that Kaylee began visibly convulsing within seconds after the attack, the serious nature of Kaylees injuries should have been immediately apparent to the accused, Kaemmerer said, adding that the posts indicate a complete disregard for the well-being of a fellow human being and serves as further proof that the accused is an ongoing threat to the community.
Gains family as well as Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey have been pushing for the unnamed girl to be tried as an adult for the vicious crime.
The girls family defended the honor roll student, who they claimed had been harassed and bullied before the beatdown a detail the Gains family said points as further proof that she knew the severity of her actions.
If anything, the accuseds reported level of intelligence suggest that she was fully capable of understanding that violence of this nature would lead to the devastating injuries that Kaylee has sustained, and therefore provides a further reason why it is appropriate for her to be tried as an adult, Kaemmerer said.
The full scope of the attack and the motive are still unclear.
Gain and another student were suspended the day prior for another altercation that did not result in any injuries, according to her family, who suggested the violent assault could have been in retaliation.

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Local MO news outlet debunks the alleged follow up posts that were deleted.

I despise bullies and I'm sick of nothing being done about then unless the worst happens.

All in all everything about this sounds like a Missouri incident.

Last time I heard about this incident ppl were saying Kaylee's the bully.

C_Pain posted...

I despise bullies and I'm sick of nothing being done about then unless the worst happens.

She was the bully. That said, she absolutely did not deserve this.

St0rmFury posted...

Last time I heard about this incident ppl were saying Kaylee's the bully.

Same. Can never be sure what's what from these articles.

Is this girl the bully?

Aztex posted...

Is this girl the bully?

Seems like it. So a bully got hurt during a fight while bullying.

Aztex posted...

Is this girl the bully?

Yes. She jumped a different girl at school the day before this incident, and was suspended. There is video online of that fight, and her bragging about it. Being suspended, she wasn't even supposed to be at the school the day of this incident. She had her mom drive her there to start this fight.

I am in no way suggesting she deserved what happened. Nobody deserves that. Just debunking the scenario of an innocent bystander being attacked without provocation.

Akuryu posted...

Yes. She jumped a different girl at school the day before this incident, and was suspended. There is video online of that fight, and her bragging about it. Being suspended, she wasn't even supposed to be at the school the day of this incident. She had her mom drive her there to start this fight.

I am in no way suggesting she deserved what happened. Nobody deserves that. Just debunking the scenario of an innocent bystander being attacked without provocation.

Yeah that definitely changes my perspective. I totally agree with you on the aspect on not saying she deserved that but it does impact how I feel overall about the situation from when I first saw the video and just thought she was a bystander.

you don't have to sympathize with the bully, but it's important to understand where self-defense ends and retaliatory assault begins. you've probably seen it before, when someone's on the ground, out cold in a fight, and the other dude's kicking his head or whatever. that's not a fight anymore, that's attempted murder

No bully that causes psychological damage to their victims deserve it.

Don't link to NY Post. Thanks.

TheLiarParadox posted...

Don't link to NY Post. Thanks.

They were the only one I could find at the time with this info.

Others were either outdated or just as bad or worse than NY Post

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/ad5748ba.jpg

she wasn't a helpless victim but she didn't deserve that.

know when to stop

Aloc posted...

she wasn't a helpless victim but she didn't deserve that.

know when to stop

That's impossible during a fight when passions are running high.

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This one is actually hard.

There is a reason why fight stoppages in the UFC exist.

Because even the fighters don't know when to stop.

I saw the video and her arms were limp as this girl repeatedly bashed her head into the pavement. It should be attempted murder

Aloc posted...

This one is actually hard.

There is a reason why fight stoppages in the UFC exist.

Because even the fighters don't know when to stop.

That isn't why there are stoppages in the UFC. That's a very stupid comment. And those fighters are absolutely ready to stop whenever.

GBH713 posted...

That isn't why there are stoppages in the UFC. That's a very stupid comment. And those fighters are absolutely ready to stop whenever.

Yea, my understanding is the fighters know when to stop but are trained / conditioned to keep fighting until the ref stops it.

I will never understand why people fight on concrete the injured girl may have life long problems and the other one going to jail for attempted murder

CADE_FOSTER posted...

I will never understand why people fight on concrete the injured girl may have life long problems and the other one going to jail for attempted murder

Don't you mean bully on concrete?

I mean if you saw DeGrassi and stuff y'all know some people get pushed past their limits and Drake is in a wheelchair.

I'm not defending the extent of pounding, but I don't think the lack of composure or restraint is surprising.

Revelation34 posted...

That's impossible during a fight when passions are running high.

this is not how it works, no. people are expected to be above acting like wild animals

MarcyWarcy posted...

this is not how it works, no. people are expected to be above acting like wild animals

Facts

Sounds cruel, I dont know the details and didnt know it happened before this topic

MarcyWarcy posted...

this is not how it works, no. people are expected to be above acting like wild animals

It is most definitely how it works.

Revelation34 posted...

It is most definitely how it works.

then hopefully you will be put away sooner rather than later if that is how you feel, before you hurt someone

No sympathy for bullies. Not a drop.

MarcyWarcy posted...

then hopefully you will be put away sooner rather than later if that is how you feel, before you hurt someone

Can't be put away for words.

Acting like an animal is correct. Should be attempted murder.

chitown82 posted...

Acting like an animal is correct. Should be attempted murder.

Animals can't murder though.