11-Year-Old Waukesha Christmas Parade Victim Remains on Ventilator in Critical Condition
Mother Amber Kohnke spent Thanksgiving at the bedside of her 11-year-old daughter, who remains in the hospital on a ventilator and in critical condition after 39-year-old Darrell E. Brooks Jr. reportedly
rammed his SUV through the Waukesha Christmas Parade, killing six and injuring sixty-two.
Eleven-year-old Jessalyn Torres was
dancing in the Waukesha parade on November 21 and was one of 16 children
admitted to Children’s Hospital Wisconsin after the callous rampage, according to a press release from the hospital.
“No mother should ever go through this. This is a very traumatic ordeal,” Jessalyn’s mother, Amber Kohnke,
told the
New York Post.
According to the family’s verified GoFundMe
page, Amber is a single mother of five. She informed the
Post that she spent Thanksgiving at the hospital with her unconscious daughter.
Jessalyn, 11-year-old Waukesha Christmas parade victim (Photo: GoFundMe campaign organized by Nathan Books)
11-Year-Old Waukesha Victim Remains Ventilated, in Critical Condition