Kaylie Smith was airlifted to jap Ontario’s youngsters’s hospital in Ottawa following the assault in Cobalt, Ont., on Sunday. (Submitted by the Smith household – picture credit score)
A 16-year-old woman is recovering in an Ottawa youngsters’s hospital after struggling severe accidents in what her household describes as a brutal assault allegedly dedicated by her ex-boyfriend, who’s now in custody and dealing with charges together with tried homicide.
“I do not understand how she’s alive. No one is aware of,” stated Kaylie Smith’s cousin Paige Smith, who spoke to CBC on behalf of the household. “It is unimaginable, her energy and resilience on this.”
Kaylie Smith was airlifted to CHEO, jap Ontario’s youngsters’s hospital in Ottawa, on Sunday evening and stays there with a number of relations at her bedside.
Paige Smith stated her youthful cousin was getting off a bus close to her house in Cobalt, Ont., on Sunday evening when a former boyfriend allegedly struck her with a automobile after which attacked her with what they imagine was a knife or machete.
Cobalt is about 500 kilometres northwest of Ottawa.
18-year-old charged with tried homicide
Phillipe Gagnon, 18, is in custody following the assault. He is dealing with one cost of try to commit homicide, one rely of aggravated assault and one rely of procurement of a weapon for a harmful goal.
Smith’s household stated her left hand was severed “fully from her physique” and her proper hand was “reduce up very severely”.
She additionally suffered wounds to the again of her head and underwent a prolonged mind surgical procedure after the edged weapon was lodged in her cranium, her household stated.
The Temiskaming detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) stated in a information launch earlier this week that they responded to a motorcar collision in Cobalt and that their investigation “revealed that an altercation occurred between an 18-year-old male and a 16-year-old feminine, who suffered life-threatening accidents and was transported to a hospital, the place she stays.”
Gagnon is predicted to seem in court docket in Haileybury, Ont., on Nov. 12. A group protest is being organized to oppose his launch on bail.
CBC was unable to succeed in Gagnon’s authorized counsel.
Group in shock, elevating cash
“She nonetheless has a really lengthy street forward of her, however for what she’s been via she’s very sturdy, very resilient,” Paige Smith stated of her cousin. “She’s recovering remarkably nicely for what’s occurred to her.”
Members of the family describe the highschool scholar as soft-spoken, candy and useful to others, in addition to being extremely inventive.
The assault has left the group in Cobalt, with a inhabitants of fewer than 1,000, reeling.
“Everyone is aware of one another and everybody’s simply devastated,” stated native resident Connie Boyd. “Anyone that I discuss to, all people’s simply feeling actually, actually unhappy proper now about this entire factor. It is all all people is speaking about.”
Boyd stated that features the bus driver who dropped Smith off earlier than the assault.
An internet fundraiser to assist the household has already raised greater than $60,000. Smith’s mom, sister and aunts are in Ottawa whereas she recovers.
Paige Smith referred to as the monetary assist “thoughts blowing.”
“It simply has us all in tears and completely simply floored, as a result of we’re not like a financially nicely off household,” she stated. “To have all of us right here … it means a lot,” she stated.
