Posted on 06/26/2019 9:33:06 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
The 5-year-old Woodbury boy who survived being thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America remains in intensive care due to severe complications from the attack, his parents said in a Tuesday update on their GoFundMe page.
Up until now we have let our hopes govern what we have revealed to the public, the post stated. However, the injuries and severe complications have now resulted in more than 15 separate medical procedures or surgeries, including surgeries for two broken arms and a broken leg, removal of his spleen, procedures for fluid in his lungs and stomach, as well as for facial and skull fractures; and just this past weekend, he had a stent placed in a vein that runs through his liver because of the serious complications he continues to endure.
The boy, publicly identified only as Landen, has been in intensive care since he was thrown nearly 40 feet to the ground by 24-year-old Emmanuel Aranda on April 12.
While the miracle of his survival is what we celebrate and thank Jesus for every day, we must also acknowledge that our beautiful boy has been on a very challenging road to recovery, the family wrote. We are still unsure when our family will be able to return home.
Aranda pleaded guilty to attempted premeditated first-degree murder and was sentenced earlier this month in Hennepin County District Court to 19 years in prison.
The Minneapolis man told investigators he went to the Bloomington mall looking for someone to kill after women he approached there had rejected his advances. He said he had planned to kill an adult before choosing the child instead.
Arandas family said he suffered from mental illness, though his lawyer never raised that as a defense.
Nineteen years? You can bet your bottom buck that he won’t serve nearly that long.
Someone threw Somebody.
“Aranda pleaded guilty to attempted premeditated first-degree murder and was sentenced earlier this month in Hennepin County District Court to 19 years in prison.”
How can you plead guilty to first degree, pre meditated murder of a 5 year old, and only get 19 years? HOW?????!?!?!?!
WTF is wrong with you MN!
Scaphism.
If he is an immigrant, report his family.
Where are the Social Justice Warriors now?
Truth
MOD = Mandatory organ donor. The perp, that is.
If I were the father ................
>>>The perp should be permanently locked up in jail or insane asylum.<<<
Nope! He should be released into GenPop.
Hmmm, you sure?
I kind of get the feeling he'd be a hero.
I’m a senior.. it’s really hard to take to see how far humanity have fallen into the pit of evil/hate/disrespect.. life has no meaning... little children used..
IT didn’t used to be this way.. my Lord.. does it just keep getting worse.... people at the top are just as screwed up as those homeless lying on the sidewalks in CA..
It just is numbing to know where we have come from...
we have phones .. TV’s.. cars.. computers... comfort beyond imagination.. and humanity is worse than ever.
Im sure there are a bunch of other crimes the guy could have been charged with to have years added on to his sentence to put him in for much longer but this is Minnesota we are talking about.
The perp is black and the victim is a white child so the prosecutors just wanted the case to go away
How is 20 years the MAX for PREMEDITATED MURDER!
Honestly, this should be either EXECUTION or LIFE WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE for is MAX sentence...
What is wrong with you MN! This is someone who is standing up and admitting, yep, I planned to murder a child, and tried to do it. The statute maximum for that should be LWOP/EXECUTION...
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU MN!
MN natives are a bovine people. Comes from eating too much cheese.
Im sure if the races had been reversed, and a 5 year old black kid had been tossed down three stories by a white male, there would have been a nation wide media frenzy and the perp would have been sentenced to life in Minn and would have had an add on federal life conviction to serve if he ever saw parole.
The prosecutors could have added hate crimes charges and vastly increased the time this piece of garbage spends in jail. This crime screams for a hate crime prosecution if there ever was one but it simply does not fit the narrative. To bad the kid was not gay or trans .
We have once great cities, Africanized and populated by tribes of ferals.
Cultural analysis, not racist
Another senior
Operation Millstone must be enacted.
Head,steam roller.
The responsibility for this ‘black hate and rage’ lies squarely with the media and demon rat party who know how to inflame black people irrationally. This in no way excuses the evil this attacker did and frankly I would have shot the SOB on the spot.
I certainly get the despair over this case though. I was at the Mall of America just a week or two before this happened. At one point, I let my 13 year-old take my 5 year-old to get a treat when we were on the Mall's third floor. The thought of my youngest son being thrown off to his death... it's just too much. I'm never going back there.
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