These parents can't let go. The videos they just released (below) don't prove anything - except that she is probably still hooked up to life support (assuming the video is current).
Jahi McMath videos released
Posted on Friday, October 3 at 5:04pm | By Carolyn Jones
The family of Jahi McMath posted two videos on YouTube they say show the teen responding to her mother’s voice. In the first video, Jahi moves her foot, and in the second, she moves her hand.
Allowing a new round of brain scans on Jahi was a difficult, gut-wrenching decision, her mother said Friday.
Jahi, a 13-year-old Oakland girl who was declared brain-dead last year following surgery for sleep apnea, has been at an undisclosed location in New Jersey the past nine months. Her family and a San Francisco attorney filed in Alameda County Superior Court this week to have her determination of brain-death overturned so she can return to California, possibly becoming eligible for publicly-financed care.
“It took me some months to fight with (the decision), because if she doesn’t (show signs of brain activity), what will I do?” Nailah Winkfield told reporters Friday at the office of her attorney, Chris Dolan. “But I knew, because I’m her mother, and I talk to her and she responds … I will never give up on her.”
If a judge does overturn Jahi’s brain-dead determination, the move would be almost unprecedented in the legal and medical establishment and call into question the very definition of death, Dolan said.
Dolan showed a few flashes of anger at the press conference when asked by reporters if the video was a hoax or publicity stunt, or if he or the family is motivated by money.
“There are some people who have darkness in their hearts,” he said. “People have been very critical of this family and myself. They say we’re trying to pull a hoax. We’re not. … This is no ruse. This is the truth.”
Winkfield said she’s been living in New Jersey with Jahi since January, when the family moved the girl from Children’s Hospital Oakland. She wants to move Jahi back to California because it’s Jahi’s home, and so Winkfield can be closer to her other three children, one of whom is expecting a baby, she said.
“Of all my children, Jahi is the strongest,” Winkfield said. “She is Jahi McMath. She’s not ‘that brain-dead girl from California.’ She is not a corpse.”
Winkfield’s brother, Omari Sealey, was also at the press conference, along with Jahi’s grandmother.
When asked why the family wants to bring her back to California, Sealey said, “She’s fine, and we want her back.”
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