She is dead and she needed her daddy. He wasn’t available because he was in prison for half of her life. Jayci Yaeger was 10 years old and she had brain cancer. She had had cancer since she was 3 years old according to news reports.
Her father is in prison on a 5 year sentence for a drug conviction and he has a year left to go. Who knows why he committed this crime? None of us know the whole story. What we do know, is that his daughter has been dying. She wanted to see her dad one last time.
While he has been in a facility that is a minimum security prison…he wanted to be moved 3 1/2 hours closer; so that he could see her. The request has been repeatedly denied; although, they did allow several supervised visits.
Just two days ago…Jayci got her wish. She got to spend 20 minutes with her father. She is gone now; but it has been said that when he lifted her upon the table for a CT scan, she wrapped her arm around him. This was a child so weak she couldn’t lift her arms. Love is a powerful thing.
I can’t imagine how horrible it would feel being seperated from your child who was dying and needed you desperately; when all along, it was because you did something illegal and had to serve time. Paying his debt to society for his crime caused him to miss what would turn out to be the last 5 years of his daughters life.
He will never get those years back with his child. But, it really isn’t him that i feel the sorriest for. I feel the sorriest for his family…for Jayci and her mother who had to go through this trauma without much of his help. Jayci obviously loved her father very much, as she improved when he was granted three or four brief, supervised visits once she had been declared terminal back in October.
Just days before she died she was able to spend a little time with her father…after all, it wasn’t her fault they were seperated.
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