Oct 8, 2009 6:43 pm US/Eastern
Young NH Victim Out Of Intensive Care
11-Year-Old Jaimie Cates Sitting Up, Talking At Children's Hospital In Boston
MONT VERNON, N.H. (WBZ) ―
Hope survives in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire with news that the condition of Jaime Cates, the 11-year-old girl visciously attacked with a machete, as her mother was murdered in their home, is improving at Children's Hospital in Boston.
"She's a great kid. We're all shocked," says Jim Peacock who runs the karate studio where Jaime earned her black belt about 6 months ago. Below her picture there, a note she wrote says, "don't give up."
Police say it was Jaime who called 911 after her Mom, Kimberly Cates, a 42-year-old local nurse, was slashed to death with the machete and Jaime was critically wounded in a random robbery about 4 a.m. Sunday.
17-year-old Steven Spader and 19-year-old Christopher Gribble, both of Brookline, New Hampshire, are charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder. Their friends, 17-year-old Quinn Glover and William Marks, 18 of Amherst, New Hampshire are charged in connection with the robbery.
Spader and Gribble reportedly were reportedly at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, hours after the robbery and murder, selling jewelry, saying they got it at a yard sale.
Jennifer Hunt, a victim/witness advocate for the New Hampshire Attorney General's office says Jamie Cates is now out of intensive care, in stable condition, alert and surrounded by family and friends.
Her father, David Cates, who was returning home from a business trip Sunday, is at her bedside almost constantly. She has been asking for her iPod, which was apparently either stolen or lost in crime scene processing.
So, an unidentified person has donated one to her. She's expected to be in the hospital about a month.
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