A Texas thief stole almost $2,000 worth of emergency medication from the wheelchair of a terminally ill boy at the State Fair, according to saddening reports.
The New York Post claim that a good Samaritan ultimately stepped in to help cover the cost of replacing the life-saving medication, but the child’s family have been understandably left shaken.
Devin Cervantes, aged just three years old, has terminal cancer. His mother, Kayla Price, told how her purse – containing two doses of medication used to prevent his seizures – and $1,500 in cash was stolen when she attended the Dallas fair with her children on October 6.
Speaking to Fox 4, Price said: “The potential of my son having a seizure and me not having that medication … it sucks.
“I could lose everything because of someone’s careless act. It really hurts because I would do anything for my baby.”
Reportedly, Price had taken Devin and her other children to the fair as Devin had been feeling particularly well. Yet while they were there, and while Price turned away to give her attention to her older son, her purse was snatched from Devin’s wheelchair.
The distressed mother revealed that the nasal spray inside the purse is crucial in stopping Devin’s seizures. Insurance, she said, would not cover a replacement.
Sending a message to the thief via her interview with Fox 4, she said: “I hope, I really wish you had it in your heart to return everything.
“You don’t know the pain that you’re causing me or my kids who you’re hurting. Just give it all back.”
The situation then grew even more dire when Devin suffered a prolonged seizure a few days later, on October 9.
When Dallas man Chris Bailey, who runs the Facebook group “Everybody Love Everybody” caught wind of the theft, he donated $2,000 to help Price cover the cost of the stolen medicine.
“I sent her the money yesterday, and she immediately went to the pharmacy and filled it,” Bailey told NBC 5.
“That medicine gave me a couple more days, a couple of more weeks, hopefully, and I am so glad,” Price said.
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