Reply #3: Pipe attack victim is 'still in bad shape,' his brother says

[Judi Lynn]

May 1, 2006, 10:55PM
Pipe attack victim is 'still in bad shape,' his brother says
Spring teen can't talk, squeeze mother's hand


By BILL MURPHY, PEGGY O'HARE and JENNIFER RADCLIFFE
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

The 17-year-old Spring boy who was savagely beaten and sodomized with a pipe more than a week ago still can't speak or squeeze his mother's hand. But his face — once swollen almost beyond recognition — has started to heal and friends are sure he can hear their prayers, his older brother said Monday.

In the family's first public statement since the attack, the boy's 21-year-old brother said the family's attention remains focused solely on the teen's health, which is still too poor to undergo operations on his internal organs.

"He's still in bad shape, but he's doing a tad better," said the brother, as he spoke in front of the family's Spring home. "He was in the wrong place at the wrong time ... I'm not out for revenge. I'm just worried about my brother."
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