A disabled five-year-old’s therapy was left in jeopardy after a heartless vandal poured black paint on the poor child’s hydrotherapy pool thus ruining it permanently.
Evie Carr can’t walk without assistance because of a condition she was born with but the pool was a huge help in improving her muscle strength and coordination. But in the dead of night, a vandal put all her progress in jeopardy.
Watch the CCTV camera of this heartless man’s doing!
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A CCTV camera managed to capture footage of the mean and the family is now appealing for anyone in Bildworth, Nottinghamshire to share any information they may have to the police.
Evie’s dad Jonathan said: “Whoever has done this is a vile and vindictive person and is the lowest of the low. It is breaking my heart even to look at it. It is completely ruined and Michelle is heartbroken.
“We have both been in tears about it. I have no words to describe what they have done and the damage they have caused. “The effect it will have is massive. Evie loves the pool and you can see from the videos how much she enjoys it.
“She can’t move in the same way out of the water as she can in the water. It’s the worst thing anyone could ever do to us.”
Evie was diagnosed with pachygyria, a rare developmental condition when she was just five months old. Apart from that, she also suffers from cerebral palsy, epilepsy and has swallowing difficulties and a small head.
When she started swimming at a public pool, the local community banded together to help the family and bought them a hydrotherapy pool in October 2016 and chipped in more for landscaping and decking.
While she can’t walk without a harness, since she was 18 months old Evie could swim without support.
Jonathan, an asbestos analyst, said: “It really has changed her life. It brings a smile to my face to see her in the pool. She’s a happy girl anyway but she completely changes when she gets into the water.”
Evie’s mother Michelle came home from work on December 12 to find a strange noise emanating from the pool and found it was filled with thick black paint when she went to investigate. When she sent Jonathan a picture of the pool, it made him feel “sick to the stomach.”
He added: “It’s hard to describe the effect it will have on us all.”
CCTV footage showed that the pool had been filled with paint three days ago.
Jonathan said: “It is ruined beyond repair. It’s hard, to sum up how I feel. It’s the hardest thing anyone could hit us with.
“I am so angry. It is cold and calculated and someone has clearly gone out of their way to do this.
“It is a planned move and the person knew exactly what they were doing.”
The family is now trying to raise funds for a replacement pool.
Replaced!