THOMASVILLE, N.C.—
Life for little Jade Robertson has changed dramatically in the past month, ever since she was hospitalized with two skull fractures, several broken bones and severe burns on her back.But at least she's home.
On Friday morning, Justin Robertson picked up his 11-month-old girl at Levine Children's Hospital in Charlotte and brought her home to Thomasville.
"On my way there, I called probably 10, 15 times to make sure they were still going to let her out," he said Friday afternoon as Jade played with her twin brother, Axle, for the first time in nearly a month.
In mid-October, Thomasville police arrested Jeremy Jordan and Shanda Robinson, the Jade's mother, after investigators determined Jordan grabbed the girl by her waist and slammed her on a concrete floor.
Jordan was jailed in the Davidson County Jail under a $500,000 bond. He faces charges of felonious intentional child abuse and felonious assault with a deadly weapon. Robinson was also jailed under a $500,000 bond on a charge of child abuse.
Robertson's fiancé, Heather Terry, was with Jade every day at the hospital, helping her get through some very tough times.
"She went through a lot to be so little. When she first went into rehabilitation, she couldn't crawl or do anything she could do before the incident, but she's worked with a therapist," Terry said.
Due to the trauma to her brain, Jade now wears a pink helmet when she plays.
"Right now, she is on blood thinners and they don't want her to hit her head and bleed out. She also has to take medication for seizures," explained Terry.
Jade left quite an impression on the nurses who cared for her. They all signed a little purple dress wishing her well.
Robertson said he plans to show it to Jade when she's old enough to hear what someone did to her when she was just a baby.
"I know eventually she is going to ask where the scar on her back came from and what all happened, and I don't know how I am going to explain it to her, but I know it's going to happen," he said.
