“It’s just so, so hard to see that someone could take a child’s independence away,” Jayson Bird said of his son Axton’s stolen wheelchair
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- Utah boy Axton Bird was gifted a new electric wheelchair on Sept. 9, a week after his old one was stolen in Midvale
- The 11-year-old lives with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a rare genetic condition that has limited his joint movement and weakened his muscles, per local outlet Fox 13 News
- “To watch our son have the independence and mobility that he deserves and have such a really awesome and cool wheelchair that he can grow into and have for many years to come, means the world to us and our family,” Axton’s dad, Jayson Bird, said
A Utah family’s “rock bottom” moment is over.
After someone stole 11-year-old Midvale boy Axton Bird’s electric wheelchair on Sept. 2, strangers who heard the news joined forces to donate a new one to him on Sept. 9, per local outlet Fox 13 News.
“It’s just so, so hard to see that someone could take a child’s independence away,” the boy’s father, Jayson Bird, told the outlet in a video interview after the theft, adding a week later, “We kind of hit rock bottom and all we were seeing was red and anger, thinking, ‘How could someone do this?’ ”…