Help For A Little Girl
Nov 19
Some stole a five year old’s wheelchair — her pink, decorated with stickers and painting to her personal specifications by her friends and family wheelchair. And then tore it to pieces:
A custom-built wheelchair stolen from a 5-year-old girl was recovered Tuesday but chopped up into “a million pieces,” her mother said.
The $8,000-chair belongs to Annabelle Hulgan, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since birth by spina bifida. It was stolen Monday from the front yard of her daytime caregiver.
Annabelle’s mother, Christen Hulgan, said the chair was found dumped beside a city street with much of its frame disassembled and its pink striped wheels pulled off. Thieves may have planned to sell the chair for scrap metal, she said, and parts of it appeared to have been hacksawed.
8 grand is a lot of money and the family is not in the best financial shape. Her life is severely restricted without it. I know times are tough, but if you have some extra cash, you could do worse than helping her out:
To donate to the Anabelle Wheelchair Account, you can contact Nancy Martin at MIFA by calling (901) 529-4525.
#1 by MDB at November 19th, 2008
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I’ve never been sure I believed in a literal Hell, but if there is one, surely there’s a place reserved in it for someone low enough to steal the wheelchair of a little girl.
#2 by tgirsch at November 19th, 2008
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These are the times when I hope I’m wrong about the whole existence of God/heaven/hell thing.
The local ABC affiliate had a fundraiser last night; not sure how much they raised, though.
#3 by Elaine at November 19th, 2008
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I live in that area, and we have had some issues with petty thieves. Somebody rummaged through our cars one night and stole my husband’s digital recorder (worth only $30) but left behind his much more valuable GPS; the perpetrator obviously had no idea what he was doing. We also have had several yard signs stolen, and I caught some guy redhanded knocking one over. So I wonder if it was just some stupid kid skipping school who swiped it without even realizing how valuable it was or that it was for a child. Some people see something in a yard and just take it without thinking about the consequences. In my previous neighborhood we had a pre-teen neighbor who would come home with a different bike every week. Of course he would just leave the newly acquired bike in his front yard, and somebody else would steal it. Call me naive, but I like to think that no adult thought to himself “screw that kid” and stole the little wheelchair for scrap metal. Maybe that is what happened, but I’m clinging to the hope that it was not.
#4 by Kristopher at November 19th, 2008
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Tweakers.
A few dollars from metal scrap to buy meth is more important to them then their own lives, let alone some paraplegic girl’s.