May Hearing Set To Decide If Girl, 15, Will Be Tried as Adult For Fight That Severely Injured Rival, 16
The injured girl, Kaylee Gain, is making a slow and difficult recovery and now suffers from ‘significant cognitive impairment’ after her assailant, Maurnice DeClue, bashed her head repeatedly into concrete.
A high stakes hearing next month will determine if St. Louis teen Maurnice DeClue, 15, will be tried as an adult for assaulting Kaylee Gain, 16, whose vicious beating a few blocks from the girls’s school, caught on tape, sparked a national uproar. Senator Hawley and Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, have been calling for Maurnice to face adult charges.
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