"None of us ever asked to be part of this kind of club."
The parents of the teenage girl who suffered brain damage in a boating accident that took the life of her classmate described the anguish of seeing their daughter, once a star soccer player, lying unconscious in a coma for months.
“We used to pray for her to open her eyes,” Rudy Puig said of his daughter, Katerina ‘Katy’ Puig. “We used to pray for her to move her thumb. We used to pray for her to just be able to eat.”
Rudy, Katy’s mother Kathya Puig and Katy, now 20 and confined to a wheelchair, were among the people attending a ceremony Wednesday lauding a new state law that toughens penalties in serious boating accidents.
“Lucy’s Law,” signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday, made reckless operation of vessels resulting in serious injuries a felony, previously only a misdemeanor.
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