Burned teen receives 3rd skin graft
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A South Florida teen police said was set on fire by a group of friends has undergone yet another surgery.
Doctors said 15-year-old Michael Brewer underwent his third skin graft Monday and is listed in stable condition.
Hours before the surgery, the mother of one of the teens accused in the attack appeared on NBC's ''Today' Show" defending her son.
Meanwhile, Brewer's physical therapist said the teen is taking those painful steps, learning how to walk again. "The pain and the suffering you go through to find something worth living for and a reason for being on this earth," said therapist Sharon Lessner-Eisenberg.
Investigators said a group of teens doused him with rubbing alcohol before setting him on fire in Deerfield Beach back in October.
MOTHER OF BREWER SUSPECTS: "THEY'RE NOT MONSTERS"
By Brian Hamacher
NBCMIAMI.com
updated 54 minutes ago
The mother of two of the teen boys involved in the brutal attack on Michael Brewer wants people to know her kids are not monsters.
"I just want everybody to understand, there's two sides to every story," Sherry Jarvis told the "Today Show" this morning. "My kids are not the monsters they've been painted to be."
Jarvis was in "Today's" New York studio with son Jeremy Jarvis, 13, and her family's lawyer Stephen Melnick, to speak with Matt Lauer.
Her other son, Denver Colorado, 15, is behind bars, charged with attempted murder in the Oct. 12 attack on Brewer, 15. Also charged are Matthew Bent, 15, and 16-year-old Jesus Mendez. All three have been in jail since the attack, awaiting trial.
They're accused of surrounding Brewer, pouring rubbing alcohol on him and setting him on fire at a Deerfield Beach apartment complex, all over a $40 video game. Brewer suffered burns on over 65 percent of his body.
Jeremy Jarvis, arrested after the attack, was released, along with another 13-year-old boy who was at the scene of the attack, after the state declined to press charges against them.
After making a brief apology last month outside Melnick's office saying he was praying for his former friend, Jeremy appeared on "Today" to say he's still praying for him.
"Michael is one of my friends, he was one of my friends until all of this happened," Jarvis said this morning. "The only thing I can do is pray for him."
When asked by Lauer whether there was anything he could have done to prevent the attack, Jarvis answered "No," but didn't elaborate.
Sherry Jarvis said she's seeking leniency for her other son, Denver.
"We don't deny that there was wrongdoing on Denver's part, I agree that there should be punishment," Sherry Jarvis said. "My opinion is this is a child and to just throw him away, I don't see how that helps. I don't see that throwing a 15 year old away for 30 years helps."
Brewer, who has been at Jackson Memorial Hospital since the attack happened, is still on his long road to recovery. His physical therapist, Barbara Diaz, told "Today" he's in a lot of pain.
"It's very painful, he's crying all the time," Diaz said. "Every now and then he goes back to 'Why did they do this to me?'"
Meanwhile, new details about the attack were released today that claim that more kids were involved in the attack than was first reported.
As many as nine teenagers surrounded Brewer during the attack, according to a report in the Sun-Sentinel.
Though the other witnesses haven't been charged, they gave a more detailed account of how the attack went down.
According to the witnesses, Bent, who had agreed to sell Brewer the video game for $40, spotted Brewer and attempted to collect his money. Brewer and Bent shook hands after Brewer agreed to pay up.
But before he could leave, Bent stopped him.
"Wait, wait, wait. Come back here," Bent ordered Brewer. Then Bent turned to Denver Jarvis, who was holding the bottle of rubbing alcohol. "Pour it on him."
That's when Mendez, holding a lighter, set Brewer ablaze, according to the witnesses.
Bent's lawyer, Gordon Weeks said his client was not the ringleader, as the witnesses claim.
"There was significant injury to Brewer and pain to him and his family," Weeks told the Sun-Sentinel. "[Detectives] devised a theory and arranged the facts to fit that theory."
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NOW, HERE IS MY TAKE ON ALL OF THIS!!! MY SON'S ARE NOT MONSTERS??? AND THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY??? WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THAT??? HER KID'S WENT AND PUT ALCOHOL ON ANOTHER YOUNG BOY, THEN SET HIM ON FIRE!!!!! ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY???? YOU NEED TO GIVE THOSE KIDS TO US, AND LET US SET THEM ON FIRE USING GASOLINE AND SEE HOW THEY LIKE IT!!!
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