Amish give update on shooting survivors, donations

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The most severely injured survivor of last year's Amish school shooting is totally dependent on her family for care, but has shown slow but steady progress in the year since the attack, according to a statement today from the community.

As the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 2 massacre nears, the committee handling the $4.3 million in donations that poured in from around the world confirmed that no public memorial events are planned.

The Nickel Mines Accountability Committee issued its most detailed statement yet on how the Amish have fared since the shootings that left five girls dead and five others injured.

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Four of the five injured girls have been in school since December. The fifth, Rosanna King, who was 6 at the time of the shootings, is unable to talk, is confined to a reclining wheelchair and must be fed by a tube.



Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07255/816827-100.stm

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Link to text of their statement: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07255/816830-85.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml

I admire how the Amish community and the people of Nickel Mines handled this tragedy in a very dignified and peaceful manner. I hope Rosanna King continues to recover.

[Brigid]

1. These are some seriously remarkable people.

They put the rest of us to shame, IMO.

[bunkerbuster1]

3. Contributing to the widow of the gunman...

I wonder how many of us would do likewise, given the opportunity?

[kestrel91316]

2. We could all stand to act a lot more like the Amish in many aspects of our lives.