'She's in agony': Brockton 6-year-old hit by car on long road to recovery

BROCKTON, Mass. — It's been a long road to recovery for a 6-year-old hit by a car in Brockton.

With tubes in her chest to drain fluid from her lungs and tubes in her nose to help her breathe, her mother tells Boston 25 News her spirit will get her through.

Neyla Prince was getting a tube to help drain her kidneys on Monday. She has been in the hospital since a terrible accident last Wednesday.

As time went by, doctors found more and more injuries.

“Internally, she's in agony,” her mother, Stephanie, said in a phone call Monday afternoon.  "I'm constantly telling my daughter. You're beautiful. This was not done on purpose. This has nothing to do with you personally, Neyla.”

The two had just stepped out their front door when it happened.

Witnesses told Boston 25 News a driver was trying to back out of a parking spot, but instead accelerated forward, pinning the child against the building.

We've since learned the 35-year-old driver, Onyinyechi Gift Madu, didn't even have a license.

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“I tell her this nightmare is going to be over soon and she just shakes her head,” Stephanie said. “I feel like she’s like, ‘why me?’”

Stephanie said her daughter is typically always on the move.

Now she's on the mend, suffering a broken rib, punctured lung and malfunctioning kidneys. Stephanie knows it could be some time before Neyla goes home.

“I don’t like time being taken from me and especially her,” she said. “Time has been taken away from us.”

But in time, she believes that sparkle will return to her daughter's eyes.

“I wish that I could be in that bed instead of her,” Stephanie said.

Police said the driver could be charged for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and marked lanes violation.

The clerk's office at Brockton District Court said no court date has been set.

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