Kaylee Gain recovering — but missing part of her skull — after vicious beatdown by classmate, family says

Missouri teen Kaylee Gain has “improved considerably” since her caput was repeatedly slammed into nan crushed during a vicious schoolhouse beatdown — but is still missing portion of her skull and will request to acquisition further surgeries to person it reattached, her family said Wednesday.

The 16-year-old is yet backmost astatine location pursuing a months-long infirmary enactment and different 2 weeks astatine an in-patient rehab installation but still has “a agelong roadworthy ahead” successful her recovery, according to an update released by her family’s attorneys.

“While hospitalized, Kaylee underwent a craniectomy which is simply a neurosurgical process that progressive removing a information of Kaylee’s skull successful bid to relieve nan unit connected her brain,” lawyer Bryan Kaemmerer wrote.

“The information of Kaylee’s skull that was removed still has not been put backmost successful place.”

Gain, who is still experiencing short-term representation loss, has been wearing a custom-made helmet to protect her brain.

Her existent betterment involves attending beingness and reside therapy 3 days a week and will person to beryllium hospitalized again to person nan portion of her skull reattached.

She still deals pinch “trauma, fearfulness and symptom that person arisen from this incident,” Kaemmerer said. 

Gain will acquisition extended neuropsychological testing later this summertime to find nan semipermanent effect of her injuries connected her cognitive function.

The update comes 1 time earlier nan 15-year-old fishy arrested for nan convulsive onslaught is scheduled to look successful tribunal for a certification hearing, aft which a judge will determine if she will beryllium tried arsenic an adult, Fox 2 reported.

Gain, due to her condition, will not be nan proceeding tomorrow, but her mother, father, stepmother and lawyer will beryllium present.

“The family will respect nan ruling, sloppy of nan outcome,” nan lawyer said.

Gain was near successful a coma aft she and different woman sewage into a caught-on-camera conflict adjacent their St. Louis, Missouri precocious schoolhouse connected March 8.

The footage of nan altercation showed nan 2nd woman getting connected apical of Kaylee and slamming her skull into nan pavement respective times while stunned peers watched.

Gain awoke from her coma respective days later but had nary recollection of nan fight.

Her attacker’s family claimed that nan juvenile fishy had been acting successful self-defense and that they received galore group threats aft nan incident.