Burn victim gets unique location at graduation

by June 21, 2024 Photo Alecia King (centre) following her return from Texas where she invested 6 months going through treatment for 3rd degree burns. Next Thursday, burn victim Alecia King will formally finish from the Dinthill Technical High School. In 2015, when her batch was finishing, King was fighting for her life in a United States medical facility, after getting substantial burns to her body after being splashed with gasolene and fired. THE WEEKEND STAR talked to the bubbly 18-year-old, who stated she was preparing for partaking in the school leaving event. “Excited is an understatement for how I feel. I believe I am feeling extremely favoured in God’s eyes. I did not get the opportunity to finish in 2023 and I had no concept that God and individuals He sent out to assist me satisfy my true blessings would do such a fantastic favour by permitting me to finish. I am simply delighted that I am formally going to be a graduate of the Dinthill Technical High School,” she stated. King went back to the island in February after getting 6 months of life-saving treatments at Shriners Burn Center in Texas. Last August, the teen was fired after being splashed with gasolene as she slept at a relative’s home in Redwood, St Catherine. She got 3rd degree burns all over her body. Days after the event, the Sanmerna Foundation, headed by handling director Robert White, had the ability to have King, who was hardly clinging to life, flown to the United States for treatment. Antwone ‘Bad Fowl’ Grey, King’s ex-boyfriend and the male who is implicated of setting her on fire, was detained by the cops about a day after she went back to the island. A lady implicated of harbouring him in her home in Central Village, St Catherine, was likewise detained. King has a growing audience on social networks and she has actually been highlighting episodes of her life on TikTok because the event. Her videos are constantly amusing and informing. She stated that her material is not just an increase for herself however works as an inspiration for others. “I desire individuals who are confronted with tight spots like mine to understand that no matter what scars you have, you are still stunning. I am still stunning. We still have life and still have what it requires queens in our circle,” King stated.

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