dresses his wounds as well as the pediatrician of the town of uvalde and he was there with the families at the moment they learned their child would not come home. he will never, ever get those mother s screams out of his head. i raced to the hospital to find parents outside yelling children s names in desperation and sobbing as they begged for any news related to their child. those mothers cries i will never get out of my head, but what i did find was something no prayer would ever relieve. two children whose bodies were pulvarized, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart that the only clue was the blood-spattered cartoon clothes clinging to life and finding none. i can only hope these two bodies were a tragic exception to the list of survivors and as i waited there with my fellow uvalde doctors, nurses, first responders and hospital staff for other casualties we hope to save, they never arrived. all that remained was the bodies of 17 more children, the two teacher
her liver and survived against all odds and she is here. i know they talk about video games and porn, but children are seeing violence and carnage and learning to wipe dead classmate s blood on their bodies to survive what s happening in real life in this country. what do we do for kids that haven t lost their lives and have lost any semblance of normalcy because of the violence. my god, the testimony that was given today. if anyone s heart is hardened after that that mother, we listened to her, and say we can t imagine. we all have to imagine. imagine we are that mother because she is begging us, to save the lives, of perfect strangers, two weeks after her child was murdered inside an elementary school in america and while she was giving her testimony hundreds of us were
we have one lawmaker with us. i want to bring this back to you, congressman, and i want to show you miah cerrillo s father s testimony today, as well. today i come because i lost my baby girl. she s not the same little girl that i used to play with and hang around with and do everything because she was daddy s little girl. she s everything not only for me, but her siblings and her mother. i thank god for letting me be here and speak out and i wish something would change not only for our kid, but every single kid in the world because schools are not safe anymore. something needs to really change. i want to ask you, congressman, if having these
what did you do when you put the blood on yourself? just stayed quiet and then got my teacher s phone and called 911. there was a testimony of the parents of fourth grader lexi rubio. lexi was one of the 19 students killed at robb elementary that day. her mom, kimberly, is a journalist. she was at work at the local newspaper when she first heard reports of a shooting at her daughter s school. she and her husband had just been there. they had just been at the school to see lexi win two awards, a good citizen award and another for receiving all as. it would be the last time they would see their daughter alive. to celebrate, we promised to get her ice cream that evening. told her we loved her and that we would pick her up after school. i can still see her walking with us toward the exit. in the reel that keeps scrolling across my memories she turns her
of 17 more children, the two teachers who cared for them. my oath as a doctor means that i signed up to save lives. i do my job, and i guess it turns out that i am here to plead, to beg, to please, please do yours. quit a moment there. we also heard today from one young survivor, 11-year-old miah cerrillo. the fourth grader summoned the courage to actually tell the story in pre-recorded testimony of how exactly she smeared her own body in the blood of a classmate in order to trick the gunman into thinking she was already dead. when he went to the backpacks he shot my friend that was next to me, and i thought he was going to come back to the room, so i grabbed her blood and i put it all over me, and