A neonatal intensive care unit. (Brad Greenlee/Flickr)
A birth gone horribly wrong left Jasmine Acebo with profound brain damage and a bleak future, one defined by wheelchairs, mechanical airways, feeding tubes, frequent hospitalizations, in-home nursing and constant pain.
Unable to work, her overwhelmed mother became dependent on food stamps and sometimes cash assistance. She watched helplessly when her newborn convulsed with seizures. She saw her daughter turn blue and nearly suffocate during a feeding.
A Florida program promised help: medical care, money for expenses a lifeline of support.
But that help, said Yamile “Jamie” Acebo, was often delayed, denied or deficient. And it included what she viewed as a shameful suggestion from a program administrator making a home visit: Would Acebo wish to place her daughter in an institution? The thought of Jasmine, surrounded by strangers and not the mother who loved her, was horrifying.
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Group home brings fear to neighborhood in south Miami-Dade County
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Surveillance video shows a group home resident making his way inside a neighbor’s house. Many in the south Miami-Dade County neighborhood said the group home is raising safety concerns.
The video shows a man, who was shaking profusely, knocking on the front door of a home in the area of Southwest 325th Street. Omar Chargui said his wife opened the door because she thought the man was there to deliver a package. It was a group home resident, and he broke into their home.
“My wife starts yelling frantically. I’m coming out of the shower. She barges into the room and says, ‘There is a man! There is a man! A stranger in the house!’ My heart drops,” Chargui said. “All types of images come through my mind. I open the bedroom door. I see the man right there.”