The now-11-year-old girl can no longer see, speak, walk, or eat on her own, according to her family. The woman accused of leaving her with permanent brain damage faces up to 20 years behind bars.
Former dentist Bethaniel Jefferson is set to be sentenced for a 2016 botched surgery that left then-4-year-old Naveah Hall with permanent brain damage.The punishment phase continues Thursday for a former Houston-area dentist in the botched surgery that changed a young girl's life seven years ago.
A jury found Bethaniel Jefferson guilty of recklessly causing serious bodily injury to a child by omission in connection with the January 2016 procedure that left then-4-year-old Naveah Hall with permanent brain damage. The child, now 11, can no longer see, speak, walk, or eat on her own and requires around-the-clock medical care after suffering drug-induced seizures and oxygen deprivation during the surgery.
"We were just a normal family, and when it happened, everything just changed," Courissa Clark, Naveah's mom, told ABC13 in 2016. "She used to be full of life. She was very happy, very outgoing. She loved people. She was a people person. Now, to me, she's still the same person. Still love her the same as if she was right, if she was walking around."
Last year, Naveah's family was awarded a $95.5 million settlement as a result of a civil suit that found Jefferson to be responsible. However, the family will never see most of that money because, according to one of the family's attorneys, Jefferson no longer has any money to pay them.
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