The child had both her amputated feet reattached after the horrific accident.
A Virginia state trooper’s 6-year-old daughter had both her feet severed in a horror freak accident involving a cargo belt she was playing with in a pickup truck.
Little Aubrey Scaletta — who recently underwent surgery to have her feet reattached — was riding in the back seat of the truck May 17 when she started fiddling with a ratchet strap, a belt used to secure cargo during transport,“One end of the strap went out the window and became wrapped around the [vehicle’s] drive shaft,” reads the release, which was posted online asking for donations for Aubrey’s dad, Trooper Daniel Scaletta, and their family after his daughter’s “terrible accident.
“As the strap turned around the drive shaft, Aubrey was almost pulled out of the window and the tightening strap severed her feet.”Aubrey Scaletta, 6, lies in her hospital bed after having both her feet severed in a freak accident.Aubrey, the daughter of a Virginia state trooper, was playing with a cargo belt while riding in a pickup truck when the strap flew out the window and wrapped around the drive shaft, severing her feet.
Aubrey was airlifted to Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where she underwent a six-hour emergency surgery to reattach her amputated feet, marking the beginning of what will be a long and painful medical journey. “Both feet seem to be receiving good blood flow after being reattached, and as of this morning, doctors have taken off the ventilator,” VSPA told
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