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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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A Broward County community is grieving after two men beat a local artist who later died at Hollywood Memorial Hospital of complications with his injuries.
David Levine’s trip home on a recent night, walking on his usual path, ended with two men beating the 70-year-old artist across the street from his apartment, landing him in the hospital, where he died days later, his friends say.