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A brutal fight put Kaylee Gain in the ICU. Now, officials weigh charging her suspected attacker as an adult

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Kaylee Gain, a teenage student from St Louis, Missouri, was brutally beaten near her high school on 8 March.

The 16-year-old suffered a skull fracture, and bleeding and swelling on the brain, during the fight. On Friday, 22 March, her family announced that she is breathing on her own and out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Meanwhile, the suspected attacker’s family caused outrage by starting a Change.org petition calling for the fifteen-year-old to be tried as a juvenile.

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